AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i9-12950HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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

8883 points
9181 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9577 points
10659 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8669 points
8766 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8618 points
8710 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

298.75 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
247.44 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
Identical
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1280 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
14 MiB
133% significantly more L2 cache

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

118th of 1,105
110th of 1,105

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i9-12950HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12950HX beats the Ryzen 9 5900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12950HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900 that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12950HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12950HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-12950HX.

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

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