Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Core i9-12900F vs Ryzen 9 7900X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Core i9-12900F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7900X. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7900X. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X 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.