Intel Core i9-12900KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Price

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$ 279.99

$ 188.99

$ 91.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12789 points

64% significantly better overall score

7793 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14030 points

33% slightly better gaming score

10548 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12383 points

79% significantly better multitasking score

6904 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12302 points

84% significantly better heavy workload score

6684 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11666 points

80% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6449 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

361.08 points

83% significantly higher Blender score

197.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14786 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

12599 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2584 points

2751 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.70 GHz

15% 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

65 W

270% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

233% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

32 MiB

6% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

44th of 1,089

154th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i9-12900KF vs Ryzen 5 7500F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7500F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900KF has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Indeed, the Core i9-12900KF has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500F. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900KF.

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