UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs Intel Core i9-12900K

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Best Bench: 122% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.25 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 97% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 6.95 GHz (avg)

Poor: 97% Great: 122%

SPEED RANK: 37^th / 1442

Gaming 112%

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Desktop 114%

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Workstation 118%

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Best Bench: 124% Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 5.1 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 107% Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg)

Poor: 107% Great: 124%

SPEED RANK: 26^th / 1442

Gaming 117%

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Desktop 116%

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Workstation 138%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		112 %			117 %	+4%


20 Oct22\|PCGamer INTEL CORE I9 13900K		SotTR 1%	8 %	FarC6 18%, F121 18%, MetroEx 4%, TWarW3 4%
20 Oct22\|HardwareLUXX The Dino Intel is not yet extinct:...	1 %	Control 1%, CPunk 5%, TWarTroy 4%, F122 1%, DoomE 3%		SpiderM 3%, RiftB 2%
20 Oct22\|Techpowerup Intel Core i5-13600K Review - Best...		EldenR 0%, CSGO 10%	4 %	Forza5 0%, AoE4 15%, Bord3 8%, FarC6 18%, WatchDL 5%, BFV 1%, CPunk 0%, RDR2 11%, Civ6 3%, DoomE 1%
22 Nov22\|Gamers Nexus Intel i7-13700K CPU Review & Bench...		SotTR 5%	2 %	FarC6 1%, FinFant14 7%, GTAV 2%, R6S 1%, TWarW3 5%
20 Oct22\|Tweakers Intel 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake Re...	4 %	RDR2 7%, F122 8%, TWarW3 12%		FarC6 5%, MetroEx 2%
06 Nov22\|Tom's Hardware Intel Core i7-13700K Review: Core ...	5 %	FarC6 3%, WatchDL 0%, CPunk 3%, RDR2 15%, MSFS21 12%, F121 12%		Hitm3 2%, TWarW3 2%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	80.7 Pts	80.8 Pts	+0%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	207 Pts	207 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	406 Pts	412 Pts	+1%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	766 Pts	814 Pts	Slightly faster quad-core speed. +6%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1369 Pts	1516 Pts	Faster octa-core speed. +11%


Memory OC Memory Latency	91.9 Pts	92.2 Pts	+0%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	217 Pts	218 Pts	+0%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	433 Pts	436 Pts	+1%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	843 Pts	858 Pts	+2%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1618 Pts	1655 Pts	+2%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.24 %		1 %	Hugely higher market share. +317%
Value Value For Money	112 %	+1%	111 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	70 %		83 %	More popular. +19%
Price Price (score)	$279	Cheaper. +15%	$330


Age Newest	18 Months	Much more recent. +38%	29 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	105 Watts	More energy efficient. +16%	125 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	8 cores		16 cores	Hugely higher core count. +100%
Threads CPU Processing Threads	16 threads		24 threads	Much higher thread count. +50%
Lithography Manufacturing process	5 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +50%	10 nm
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	4.5 GHz	Much faster base frequency. +41%	3.2 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	5.4 GHz	+4%	5.2 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	1996 Pts		2996 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +50%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	1873 Pts		2804 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +50%


Series CPU Architecture	Zen4	Alder Lake
Socket Motherboard Socket	AM5	FCLGA1700
Graphics Integrated Graphics	RDNA2	UHD 770

Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. ^{[Sep '22 CPUPro]}

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Intel’s 16-core flagship Alder Lake i9-12900K processor delivers a staggering performance improvement over it's predecessor (+70% 64-core). It features a new hybrid architecture which combines eight hyper-threaded performance cores with eight efficiency cores for a total of 24 threads. Alder Lake CPUs will require a new Z690 chipset which supports DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0. At an MRSP of $590 USD, the i9-12900K is aimed at power users who demand the best of the best. That said, Intel’s 10-core 12600K matches the 12900K’s performance for the majority of consumer use cases at a 50% price discount. ^{[Nov '21 CPUPro]}

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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