Intel Core i9-12900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 387.99 significantly less expensive

$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13331 points

14398 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14234 points

7% slightly better gaming score

13255 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13035 points

14804 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12983 points

14984 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points

14388 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points

537.64 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27005 points

36291 points

34% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15144 points

19516 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2550 points

2881 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15365 points

19647 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2616 points

2926 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

4.20 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

5.7 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

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

25% slightly more L1 cache

1024 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

128 MiB

326% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

39th of 1,089

27th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 February

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 9 7950X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D performs better than the Core i9-12900K. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900K.

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