AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs Intel Core i9-12900

Ryzen 9 7900 vs Core i9-12900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Core i9-12900 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900 has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-12900 has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-12900.

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 7900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.