Intel Core i9-12900HK vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Core i9-12900HK vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H beats the Core i9-12900HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12900HK has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

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