Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Price

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$ 528.31

$ 321.08

$ 207.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points

4% slightly better overall score

10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points

43% significantly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points

10760 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points

11072 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10914 points

11130 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points

367.23 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.30 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

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

25% slightly more L1 cache

1024 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

64 MiB

113% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

76th of 1,089

83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i9-12900F vs Ryzen 9 5900XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900XT beats the Core i9-12900F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 9 5900XT has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.