Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD FX-8370E

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6632 points

206% significantly better overall score

2163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7128 points

120% significantly better gaming score

3237 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6506 points

256% significantly better multitasking score

1826 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6504 points

271% significantly better heavy workload score

1753 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.94 points

448% significantly higher Blender score

34.44 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.38 GHz

3.3 GHz

138% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

233% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

274% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

214th of 1,089

691st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900T vs FX-8370E benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the FX-8370E in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8370E has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the FX-8370E has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8370E. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370E has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900T CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8370E CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8370E has more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8370E.

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