Intel Core i9-12900HK vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

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

6371 points

3% slightly better overall score

6163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8680 points

9% slightly better gaming score

7894 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5739 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

5606 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5626 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

5474 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7480 points

44% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

5170 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

178.23 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

148.55 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19282 points

64% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

11741 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

2.70 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1120 KiB

118% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7.5 MiB

87% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

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

230th of 1,089

242nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-12900HK vs Ryzen 7 6800U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 6800U is faster than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 6800U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 6800U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800U outputs less heat than Core i9-12900HK thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 6800U. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.