AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i9-12900KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 87.91
$ 192.08 significantly less expensive
$ 279.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points
12789 points
274% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points
14030 points
166% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points
12383 points
334% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points
12302 points
350% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3972 points
11666 points
193% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points
361.08 points
424% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points
14840 points
318% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points
2507 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points
14786 points
308% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points
2584 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

8
24
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.2 GHz
23% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1280 KiB
233% 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

495th of 1,089
44th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 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
Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Core i9-12900KF comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900KF performs better than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3400G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900KF has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3400G that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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