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

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points

9304 points

0.82% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points

10181 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

9062 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

9033 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

188.94 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points

11628 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points

2268 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

153% significantly higher clock speed

1.38 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

35 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

1280 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

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

107th of 1,105

104th of 1,105

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

12th Generation Core i9

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i9-12900T comparison

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 3950X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 3950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900T. The Ryzen 9 3950X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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