AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs Intel Core i9-12900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series 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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Intel Core i9-12900K

Price

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$ 146.63

$ 142.37 significantly less expensive

$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3697 points

13331 points

260% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6008 points

14234 points

136% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3016 points

13035 points

332% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

12983 points

346% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points

364.47 points

385% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5.2 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

270% significantly lower TDP

241 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

1280 KiB

400% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

30 MiB

650% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

462nd of 1,089

39th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 3 4300G vs Core i9-12900K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900K is faster than the Ryzen 3 4300G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 4300G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4300G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 4300G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900K. A Ryzen 3 4300G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Ryzen 3 4300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.