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

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

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900XT beats the Core i7-12700H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700H has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 3900XT has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has more threads than the Core i7-12700H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900XT thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.