amd ryzen 9 5950x vs intel core i9 12900ks

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Desktop) 16-cores against Intel Core i9 12900KS (Desktop) 16-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 12900KS
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • Consumes up to 30% less energy than the Intel Core i9 12900KS – 105 vs 150 Watt
  • Has 34 MB larger L3 cache size
Advantages of Intel Core i9 12900KS
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Around 25.6 GB/s (33%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • 8% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.3 GHz vs 4.9 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
29230
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
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 12900ks

General

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900KS
Vendor AMD Intel
Released October 8 2020 April 5 2022
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Vermeer Alder Lake-S
Socket AM4 FCLGA1700
Integrated GPU - Intel UHD Graphics 770

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900KS
Cores 16 16
Threads 32 24
Base Frequency 3.4 GHz 3.4 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.9 GHz 5.3 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1.25 MB (per core)
L3 Cache 64 MB 30 MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes Yes

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900KS
Fabrication process 7 nm Intel 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 105 W 150 W
Max. temperature °C 90°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900KS
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Memory Size 128 GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.196 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900KS
Integrated Graphics - Intel UHD Graphics 770
GPU Base Clock MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.55 MHz
Shading Units 256
TMUs 16
ROPs 8
Execution Units 32
TGP W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
TFLOPS
0.78 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9 12900KS
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 5950X official page Intel Core i9 12900KS official page
PCI Express Version 4
PCI Express Lanes 20

Comments

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