Intel Core i9-12900KF vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX

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

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Intel Core i9-12900KF

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 279.99

$ 616.32 significantly less expensive

$ 896.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12789 points

12933 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14030 points

31% slightly better gaming score

10680 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12383 points

13704 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12302 points

13985 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

361.08 points

428.80 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14840 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

14437 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2507 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2022 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14786 points

15788 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2584 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2123 points

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 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

241 W

16% slightly lower TDP

280 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

300% significantly more memory channels

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

64 MiB

113% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

44th of 1,089

40th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i9-12900KF vs Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX s benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX s is faster than the Core i9-12900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX s has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX s has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KF.

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