AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

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

8422 points

8926 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points

10736 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points

0.27% slightly better multitasking score

8383 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

8262 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

218.16 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points

8% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

17510 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

81% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.8 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

55 W

90% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

1280 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

14 MiB

133% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

156% significantly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089

112th 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 May

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 9 3900X vs Core i7-12850HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12850HX performs better than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12850HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12850HX 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 info from our database shows that the Core i7-12850HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12850HX.

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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.