Intel Core i9-12900KS vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 379.99

$ 297.00 significantly less expensive

$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14046 points

14240 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14925 points

12% slightly better gaming score

13213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13755 points

14605 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13690 points

14773 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i9-12900KS and the Ryzen 9 7950X3D? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12192 points

14388 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

372.23 points

537.64 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16406 points

19516 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2655 points

2881 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16013 points

19647 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2713 points

2926 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.4 GHz

4.20 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.5 GHz

5.7 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

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

Identical

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

128 MiB

326% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

28th of 1,118

26th of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900KS vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Core i9-12900KS in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KS. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D outputs less heat than Core i9-12900KS thanks to a slightly 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 i9-12900KS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.