Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

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

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 528.31

$ 273.07

$ 255.24 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points

8% slightly better overall score

9769 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points

7% slightly better gaming score

11596 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

9145 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

8951 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i9-12900F and the Ryzen 7 8700G? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10914 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7917 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

245.43 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13858 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

13530 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2526 points

2650 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

4.2 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

Identical

5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

87% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

76th of 1,089

95th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 January

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 7 8700G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900F beats the Ryzen 7 8700G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8700G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900F has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8700G has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8700G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F.

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