Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 528.31
$ 276.36
$ 251.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points
10739 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points
12739 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points
10048 points
0.16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
9834 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10914 points
27% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
8548 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
266.15 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13858 points
14835 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2526 points
2879 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
3.80 GHz
58% 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
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

76th of 1,089
74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Core i9-12900F vs Ryzen 7 7700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700 is faster than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 7 7700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F.

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.

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