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

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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

9859 points

20% slightly better overall score

8158 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

10256 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

7544 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

7441 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7534 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

209.04 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points

5% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

19648 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

45 W

133% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

1120 KiB

45% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089

142nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i9-12900H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900X performs better than the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900H has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than the Core i9-12900H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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