Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Price

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$ 528.31

$ 177.00

$ 351.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points

23% slightly better overall score

8583 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points

7% slightly better gaming score

11637 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

7604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

7365 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10914 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6996 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

208.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13858 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

12876 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2526 points

2889 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

4.70 GHz

95% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

5.3 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

233% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

32 MiB

6% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

76th of 1,089

121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i9-12900F vs Ryzen 5 7600X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900F performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900F has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-12900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.