AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 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

$ 198.00
$ 91.00 significantly less expensive
$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points
13331 points
110% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points
14234 points
86% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points
13035 points
120% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points
12983 points
124% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points
11701 points
93% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points
364.47 points
102% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116 points
15144 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623 points
2550 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points
15365 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points
2616 points
56% 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

3.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.2 GHz
18% 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

512 KiB
1280 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
6% slightly more L3 cache
30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089
39th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i9-12900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900K is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X 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 3700X 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 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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