Intel Core i9-12900H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 8 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

8293 points

8447 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10420 points

0.41% slightly better gaming score

10377 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7668 points

7810 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7563 points

7629 points

0.87% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7534 points

7779 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.04 points

225.40 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19648 points

8% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

18131 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

4.00 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.2 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

20% slightly lower TDP

54 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1120 KiB

118% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

146th of 1,118

137th of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-12900H vs Ryzen 9 7940HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7940HS performs better than the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU because of its slightly 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.