Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points
0.65% slightly better overall score
10538 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points
30% slightly better gaming score
9595 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points
10967 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points
11265 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points
468.88 points
59% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
2.50 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
5.4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

79th of 1,114
80th of 1,114

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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