Intel Core i7-12700KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

Core i7-12700KF vs Ryzen 7 9850X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D is faster than the Core i7-12700KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700KF in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700KF has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9850X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700KF.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.