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General information Core i9-12900 Ryzen 9 3900X
Launched Q1 2022 Q3 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA1700 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 9
Core Family Name Alder Lake Matisse
Clock 2.4 GHz 36.8 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 5.1 GHz 0 % 4.6 GHz 9.8 %
Cores 16 0 % 12 25 %
Threads 24 0 % 24 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 38.1 % 105 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 10 nm 0 % 7 nm 30 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 48 kB Data
12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 1.25 MB
12 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 30 MB
4 × 16 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-12900 Ryzen 9 3900X
Overall Score 68822 0 % 67953 1.3 %
Future Proof 86 % 0 % 72 % 16.3 %
Benchmark Score 22434 0 % 21323 5 %
Single Thread Score 4062.2 0 % 2690.8 33.8 %
Encrypting Data 23573.9 MB/s 17.9 % 28709.7 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 406.2 MB/s 7.6 % 439.8 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 45348.9 thousand/s 5.8 % 48154.6 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 124.7 millions/s 41.6 % 213.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 129998 millions/s 0 % 99231.7 millions/s 23.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 93686.1 millions/s 0 % 58621.6 millions/s 37.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900, Ryzen 9 3900X.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900 Ryzen 9 3900X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 158.5 FPS 155.9 FPS
High settings 253.6 FPS 249.5 FPS
Medium settings 317.1 FPS 311.8 FPS
Low settings 396.3 FPS 389.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.6 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i9-12900 Ryzen 9 3900X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 171.6 FPS 170.1 FPS
High settings 274.6 FPS 272.1 FPS
Medium settings 343.3 FPS 340.1 FPS
Low settings 429.1 FPS 425.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.9 %
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