Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9077 points
5% slightly better overall score
8640 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9883 points
12252 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8857 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
7496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8836 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
7243 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.94 points
233.29 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11628 points
14957 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2268 points
3338 points
47% significantly 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
3.9 GHz
182% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.4 GHz
10% 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

111th of 1,093
122nd of 1,093

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2024 August

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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