Intel Core i9-12900F vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

Core i9-12900F vs Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 performs better than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.