amd ryzen 9 5950x vs intel core i9 12900h

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Desktop) 16-cores against Intel Core i9 12900H (Laptop) 14-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Intel Core i9 12900H
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 40 MB larger L3 cache size
  • Supports up to 128 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Unlocked multiplier
Advantages of Intel Core i9 12900H
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Consumes up to 57% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X – 45 vs 105 Watt
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.9 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1914
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
26164
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3941
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
46616
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
18586

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 5950x and core i9 12900h

General

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900H
Vendor AMD Intel
Released October 8 2020 January 4 2022
Type Desktop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Vermeer Alder Lake-H
Socket AM4 FCBGA1744
Integrated GPU - Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900H
Cores 16 14
Threads 32 20
Base Frequency 3.4 GHz 2.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.9 GHz 5 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1.25 MB (per core)
L3 Cache 64 MB 24 MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900H
Fabrication process 7 nm Intel 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 105 W 45 W
Max. temperature °C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900H
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267
Memory Size 128 GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.196 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900H
Integrated Graphics - Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible
GPU Base Clock MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.45 MHz
Shading Units 768
TMUs 48
ROPs 24
Execution Units 96
TGP W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
TFLOPS
1.69 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900H
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 5950X official page Intel Core i9 12900H official page
PCI Express Version 4 4
PCI Express Lanes 28

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i9 12900H or AMD Ryzen 9 5950X?