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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
1% slightly better overall score
9077 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
9883 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
8857 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
8836 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
188.94 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
11628 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) 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

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

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

2
Identical
2

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

106th of 1,093
111th of 1,093

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
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

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