AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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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Intel Core i9-12900F

Price

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$ 287.24

$ 241.07 significantly less expensive

$ 528.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

5% slightly better overall score

10606 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

12487 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

10032 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

9936 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

10914 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

293.98 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

13858 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

2526 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

41% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.1 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

1280 KiB

25% slightly more L1 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

66th of 1,089

76th 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

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i9-12900F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900F outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.