Intel Core i9-12900HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Core i9-12900HX vs Ryzen 7 9700X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HX beats the Ryzen 7 9700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9700X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HX. The Ryzen 7 9700X also has slightly 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 i9-12900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.