Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points

11380 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points

18% slightly better gaming score

10581 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points

11723 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points

11982 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10914 points

15023 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points

538.07 points

83% significantly 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

2.5 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

Identical

1280 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

61st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

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 9 9955HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900F is faster than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 9955HX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Also, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX outputs less heat than Core i9-12900F thanks to a slightly 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.