AMD EPYC 7543P vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Compare AMD EPYC 7003 Series 32 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1895.00
$ 528.31
$ 1366.69 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3463 points
10606 points
206% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4960 points
12487 points
151% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2982 points
10032 points
236% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2866 points
9936 points
246% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.01 points
293.98 points
276% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15287 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
13858 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1609 points
2526 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

32
100% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

64
166% significantly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
5.1 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

225 W
65 W
246% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

8
300% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

2048 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache
1280 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

256 MiB
753% significantly more L3 cache
30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

488th of 1,089
76th of 1,089

Family

The product line

EPYC 7003 Series
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

EPYC 7543P vs Core i9-12900F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 7543P beats the Core i9-12900F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores than the Core i9-12900F. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has 32 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i9-12900F. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900F outputs less heat than EPYC 7543P thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 EPYC 7543P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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