AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i9-12900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 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

5087 points
13331 points
162% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6161 points
14234 points
131% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4760 points
13035 points
173% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points
12983 points
177% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.86 points
364.47 points
160% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10624 points
27005 points
154% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6263 points
15144 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1671 points
2550 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6881 points
15365 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1741 points
2616 points
50% 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

1.9 GHz
3.2 GHz
68% significantly higher clock speed

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

15 W
1506% significantly lower TDP
241 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

16 MiB
30 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

340th of 1,089
39th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i9-12900K specs and performance

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

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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