Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8097 points
8447 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8700 points
10377 points
19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7946 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
7810 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7945 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
7629 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.94 points
225.40 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11628 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
11485 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2268 points
2444 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.38 GHz
4.00 GHz
189% 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
54% significantly lower TDP
54 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

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

150th of 1,092
130th of 1,092

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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