AMD FX-8320E vs Intel Core i9-12900T

FX-8320E vs Core i9-12900T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Core i9-12900T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the FX-8320E that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8320E. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320E has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than FX-8320E thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-8320E. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 FX-8320E has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.