Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Core i9-12900T vs Ryzen 9 8945H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Ryzen 9 8945H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945H 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 9 8945H.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.