Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

110% significantly better overall score

3147 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7128 points

42% significantly better gaming score

4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6506 points

150% significantly better multitasking score

2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6504 points

160% significantly better heavy workload score

2494 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.94 points

193% significantly higher Blender score

64.47 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11628 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3685 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2268 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1171 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

2.80 GHz

102% 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

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

400% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

650% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

214th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900T vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7520U is faster than the Core i9-12900T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12900T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.