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

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i9-12900T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900XT beats the Core i9-12900T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T 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 i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900T. The Ryzen 9 3900XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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