Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8097 points
8451 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8700 points
12073 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7946 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
7298 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7945 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
7044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.94 points
221.97 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11628 points
14339 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2268 points
3205 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.38 GHz
3.8 GHz
174% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.2 GHz
6% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB
166% significantly more L1 cache
480 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

150th of 1,092
129th of 1,092

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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