Intel Core i9-12900T vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9479 points
9951 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10381 points
43% significantly better gaming score
7212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9226 points
11058 points
19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9195 points
11834 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.94 points
397.75 points
110% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11628 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7241 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2268 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1240 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
48
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.38 GHz
3 GHz
117% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
614% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB
2304 KiB
79% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
12 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB
64 MiB
113% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 1,114
94th of 1,114

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

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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