Intel Core i9-12900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 32.08 slightly less expensive

$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13331 points

31% slightly better overall score

10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14234 points

63% significantly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13035 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

10760 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12983 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

11072 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

11130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points

367.23 points

0.76% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.30 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

241 W

105 W

129% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

1024 KiB

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

39th of 1,089

83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

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 9 5900XT benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900K performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900XT in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 9 5900XT has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900K. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5900XT outputs less heat than Core i9-12900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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