AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i9-12900HK specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3950X beats the Core i9-12900HK in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900HK. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i9-12900HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HK. The Ryzen 9 3950X 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 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.