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

Core i9-12900T vs Ryzen 7 7840U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7840U beats the Core i9-12900T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7840U outputs less heat than Core i9-12900T thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U 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 7840U.

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.