AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points
6632 points
189% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points
7128 points
69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points
6506 points
271% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points
6504 points
286% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points
188.94 points
361% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points
11628 points
308% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
2268 points
127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
24
499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
124% significantly higher clock speed
1.38 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.9 GHz
44% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1280 KiB
233% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
30 MiB
274% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089
214th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Core i9-12900T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Ryzen 3 1200 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 1200. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 1200. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1200. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 1200 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 1200 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12900T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 1200. 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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