AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 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

8422 points
13% slightly better overall score
7424 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
9222 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
6907 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
6820 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7238 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
42% slightly higher Blender score
194.62 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points
19330 points
1% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
20% slightly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
45 W
133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1120 KiB
45% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
169th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i7-12700H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900X performs better than the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X has more threads than the Core i7-12700H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900X thanks to a 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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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