AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs Intel Core i9-12900F

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7246 points
10606 points
46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9033 points
12487 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6679 points
10032 points
50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6542 points
9936 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7120 points
10914 points
53% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

191.07 points
293.98 points
53% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8758 points
13858 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2080 points
2526 points
21% slightly 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
41% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.1 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

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

175th of 1,089
76th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Core i9-12900F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900F is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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