AMD Ryzen 7 5700X vs Intel Core i9-12900KS

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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Intel Core i9-12900KS

Price

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$ 212.99

$ 167.00 significantly less expensive

$ 379.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7420 points

14046 points

89% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8999 points

14925 points

65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6901 points

13755 points

99% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6758 points

13690 points

102% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6914 points

12192 points

76% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

207.23 points

372.23 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9632 points

16406 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2079 points

2655 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9706 points

16013 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points

2713 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.5 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

130% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

184th of 1,126

28th of 1,126

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

2022 February

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 7 5700X vs Core i9-12900KS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KS is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900KS has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900KS 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 5700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.