AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 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

6264 points

8158 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points

10256 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points

7544 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points

7441 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6544 points

7534 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

209.04 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14363 points

19648 points

36% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

1120 KiB

118% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089

142nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i9-12900H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900H performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900HX. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H 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 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.