Intel Core i9-12900 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

Core i9-12900 vs Ryzen 7 9850X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D beats the Core i9-12900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-12900.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-12900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.