AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i9-12900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

$ 195.99
$ 93.01 significantly less expensive
$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4528 points
13335 points
194% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points
14237 points
150% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points
13039 points
214% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points
12988 points
220% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4254 points
11701 points
175% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points
364.47 points
176% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5551 points
15144 points
172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1070 points
2550 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points
15365 points
175% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points
2616 points
137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
5.2 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
153% significantly lower TDP
241 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1280 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
30 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

403rd of 1,118
39th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Core i9-12900K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K beats the Ryzen 7 1700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700X 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 7 1700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900K. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700X 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.

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 Ryzen 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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