Intel Core i9-12900HX vs AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD 16 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

11511 points
2% slightly better overall score
11227 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12078 points
12120 points
0.35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11322 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
11094 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11290 points
11316 points
0.23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

279.75 points
458.55 points
63% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB
64 MiB
113% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

58th of 1,089
65th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-12900HX vs RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HX beats the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 in overall performance. Despite this, the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. The info from our database shows that the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HX. The RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 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 i9-12900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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