AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i7-12700F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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 i7-12700F

Price

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$ 399.99

$ 244.97

$ 155.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points

10416 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points

12172 points

63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

Identical

9844 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

9714 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

9522 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

270.50 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10775 points

11687 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1676 points

2341 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points

11785 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points

2387 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

4.9 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

960 KiB

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

105th of 1,089

77th 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 November

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 3950X vs Core i7-12700F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700F is faster than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3950X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700F. Despite this, the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700F outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.