Intel Core i9-12900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 97.14 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13331 points

33% slightly better overall score

10011 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14234 points

19% slightly better gaming score

11884 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13035 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

9348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12983 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

9142 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points

46% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

8010 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

263.24 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27005 points

49% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

18086 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15365 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

15051 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2616 points

2723 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

4.20 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

241 W

120 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

96 MiB

220% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

39th of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900K vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K beats the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900K.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.