Intel Core i9-12900H vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i9-12900H vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900H performs better than the EPYC 74F3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 74F3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores than the EPYC 74F3. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has 14 cores compared to 9 cores found in the EPYC 74F3. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. With our hardware info, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900H. A Core i9-12900H CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 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 i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.