AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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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Intel Core i9-12900F

Price

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$ 389.99

$ 138.32 significantly less expensive

$ 528.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points

10606 points

26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points

12487 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points

10032 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points

9936 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8585 points

10914 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points

293.98 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points

13858 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points

2526 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.8 GHz

58% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.1 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

1280 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

113% significantly more L3 cache

30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

131st of 1,089

76th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 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

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i9-12900F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900F performs better than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900XT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 3900XT has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900F 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.

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