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

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i9-12900T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900T is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HX 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 5900HX thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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