Intel Core i9-12900KS vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 379.99
$ 6.15 slightly less expensive
$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14046 points
40% slightly better overall score
10008 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14925 points
25% slightly better gaming score
11874 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13755 points
47% significantly better multitasking score
9348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13690 points
49% significantly better heavy workload score
9142 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12192 points
52% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
8010 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

372.23 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
263.24 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16013 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
15051 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2713 points
2723 points
0.37% 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

3.4 GHz
4.20 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.5 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W
120 W
25% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB
96 MiB
220% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

27th of 1,109
90th of 1,109

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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