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

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

11511 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

12078 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

11322 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

11290 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

9511 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

279.75 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points

15% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

23482 points

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

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

55 W

90% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

1280 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

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

58th 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 May

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 5950X vs Core i9-12900HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900HX performs better than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5950X in all gaming tests too.

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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HX 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900HX. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.