Intel Core i7-12700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11529 points
15323 points
32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13318 points
14466 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10938 points
15645 points
43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10798 points
15813 points
46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

304.26 points
543.98 points
78% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
32
60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.4 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

190 W
55 W
245% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB
1280 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
128 MiB
412% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

60th of 1,121
20th of 1,121

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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