AMD Ryzen 7 2700U vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Ryzen 7 2700U vs Core i9-12900T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900T is faster than the Ryzen 7 2700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900T CPU because of its 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 7 2700U. 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 Ryzen 7 2700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.