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

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-12700K

Price

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$ 389.99

$ 259.99

$ 130.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points

11540 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points

13325 points

56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points

10952 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points

10812 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8585 points

10051 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points

304.26 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10007 points

13491 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1698 points

2487 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points

13854 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points

2554 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

80% significantly lower TDP

190 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

960 KiB

25% slightly more L1 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

131st of 1,089

57th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2021 November

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 3900XT vs Core i7-12700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700K is faster than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900XT in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 9 3900XT has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700K CPU because of its 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.