Intel Core i9-12900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

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Price

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$ 289.00
$ 280.05 significantly less expensive
$ 569.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13335 points
15772 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14237 points
15040 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13039 points
16008 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12988 points
16094 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points
13700 points
17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points
466.69 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15365 points
20191 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2616 points
3294 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
33% slightly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
Identical
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
4.4 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
5.5 GHz
5% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
960 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 1,099
19th of 1,099

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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