Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

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Price

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$ 528.31
$ 212.99
$ 315.32 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points
43% significantly better overall score
7404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points
38% slightly better gaming score
8988 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points
45% significantly better multitasking score
6883 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score
6741 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10914 points
57% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6914 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
207.23 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13858 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9706 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2526 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2147 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.40 GHz
41% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache
512 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

77th of 1,099
176th of 1,099

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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