AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i9-12900F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900F is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.