Intel Core i7-12700KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Price

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$ 229.97

$ 339.08 significantly less expensive

$ 569.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11376 points

15772 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13117 points

15040 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10800 points

16008 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10658 points

16094 points

51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10063 points

13700 points

36% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

304.09 points

466.69 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13490 points

20191 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2520 points

3294 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.5 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

190 W

120 W

58% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

Identical

960 KiB

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

62nd of 1,089

19th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i7-12700KF vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D performs better than the Core i7-12700KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700KF in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700KF. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D outputs less heat than Core i7-12700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.