Intel Core i9-12900KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 279.99
$ 250.17
$ 29.82 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12789 points
35% slightly better overall score
9424 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14030 points
23% slightly better gaming score
11316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12383 points
40% slightly better multitasking score
8790 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12302 points
43% significantly better heavy workload score
8596 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11666 points
48% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
7868 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

361.08 points
57% significantly higher Blender score
229.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14786 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12976 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2584 points
2647 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
4.10 GHz
28% 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

2
Identical
2

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 1,089
101st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Core i9-12900KF vs Ryzen 7 8700F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900KF performs better than the Ryzen 7 8700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8700F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900KF has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8700F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8700F outputs less heat than Core i9-12900KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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