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

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i9-12900H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Core i9-12900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-12900H that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly 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 5950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.