Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

9304 points

15% slightly better overall score

8046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10181 points

10893 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9062 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

7125 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9033 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

6898 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.94 points

199.23 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11628 points

12203 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2268 points

2751 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.38 GHz

3.80 GHz

175% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.1 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

32 MiB

6% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 1,102

153rd of 1,102

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 January

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 i9-12900T vs Ryzen 5 7600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Ryzen 5 7600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 7600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900T CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600 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 Ryzen 5 7600 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900T. The Ryzen 5 7600 also has slightly 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.