Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD 8 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

3% slightly better overall score

8985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10181 points

10717 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9062 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

8377 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9033 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

8167 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.94 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

172.18 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.38 GHz

3.80 GHz

175% significantly higher clock speed

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

87% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 1,105

113th of 1,105

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

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 7 7840H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900T performs better than the Ryzen 7 7840H. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840H 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 Ryzen 7 7840H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 7840H.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.