Intel Core i9-12900KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Core i9-12900KF vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF is faster than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 7 9800X3D. Indeed, the Core i9-12900KF has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KF. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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.

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.