UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs Intel Core i9-12900K

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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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Best Bench: 124% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.3 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 95% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg)

Poor: 95% Great: 124%

SPEED RANK: 33^rd / 1442

Gaming 114%

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Desktop 115%

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Workstation 151%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		117 %	+3%		114 %


20 Oct22\|PCGamer INTEL CORE I9 13900K	7 %	FarC6 13%, SotTR 0%, F121 11%, MetroEx 6%, TWarW3 4%
20 Oct22\|HardwareLUXX The Dino Intel is not yet extinct:...	2 %	Control 0%, SpiderM 7%, RiftB 14%		CPunk 4%, TWarTroy 3%, F122 1%, DoomE 3%
20 Oct22\|Techpowerup Intel Core i5-13600K Review - Best...	4 %	Forza5 0%, AoE4 20%, Bord3 8%, FarC6 18%, WatchDL 5%, CPunk 0%, RDR2 12%, DoomE 1%		BFV 0%, EldenR 0%, Civ6 2%, CSGO 8%
22 Nov22\|Gamers Nexus Intel i7-13700K CPU Review & Bench...		FarC6 0%, FinFant14 12%, GTAV 0%, R6S 1%, TWarW3 5%	0 %	SotTR 5%, CSGO 16%
20 Oct22\|Tweakers Intel 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake Re...		FarC6 4%, MetroEx 2%	5 %	RDR2 8%, F122 10%, TWarW3 12%
20 Oct22\|Linustechtips We were afraid to publish this vid...		TWarW3 10%	10 %	Factorio 30%, Forza5 2%, Hitm3 12%, FarC6 1%, SotTR 19%, CPunk 5%, CSGO 20%, TinTW 9%
06 Nov22\|Tom's Hardware Intel Core i7-13700K Review: Core ...		CPunk 2%, F121 3%, TWarW3 13%	4 %	Hitm3 10%, FarC6 5%, WatchDL 2%, RDR2 16%, MSFS21 21%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	80.8 Pts	+2%	79.3 Pts
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	207 Pts		209 Pts	+1%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	412 Pts	+1%	408 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	814 Pts	+3%	791 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1516 Pts		1527 Pts	+1%


Memory OC Memory Latency	92.2 Pts	+1%	91.4 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	218 Pts		221 Pts	+1%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	436 Pts		436 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	858 Pts	+0%	857 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1655 Pts		1685 Pts	+2%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.93 %	Hugely higher market share. +564%	0.14 %
Value Value For Money	111 %	Better value. +20%	92 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	84 %	Much more popular. +35%	62 %
Price Price (score)	$335	Much cheaper. +44%	$600


Age Newest	29 Months		18 Months	Much more recent. +38%
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watts	More energy efficient. +26%	170 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	16 cores		16 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	24 threads		32 threads	Much higher thread count. +33%
Lithography Manufacturing process	10 nm		5 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +50%
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.2 GHz		4.5 GHz	Much faster base frequency. +41%
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	5.2 GHz		5.7 GHz	Slightly faster turbo frequency. +10%
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	2996 Pts		3877 Pts	Faster OC 64-core speed. +29%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	2804 Pts		3670 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +31%


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

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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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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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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