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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Processor (12C/24T, 70MB Cache, up to 4.8 GHz Max Boost)

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The two review units are running the exact same RTX 3070 Nvidia dGPU at up to 150W of power with Dynamic Boost and in a MUX design, so in theory, I’d expect minimal differences in games between the two platforms. However, we’re seeing a variation in results in real-life tests.

Besides raw specs and performance benchmarks, there are several differences in the feature sets for the respective Ryzen 9 and Core i9 platforms that might factor into your buying decision. And here are a couple more Ryzen 9 6900HX and Core i9-12900H models in this same test, to verify our findings on these ROG platforms. Gains in Cinebench were less drastic, by comparison, but still significant. The Ryzen 9 5900X was roughly 40% faster than the Core i9-10900K in the multi-core run, if just 5% faster in single-core. This is still impressive, though, considering that the 5900X has to make room for two more cores than the Core i9-10900K and still manages to outpace it in single-core content work. (That was also borne out in the single-core run of POV-Ray and the minimally threaded legacy iTunes test.) Single-core speed has long been a traditional strength for Intel chips versus their like-priced and similarly positioned AMD competitors. This Ryzen 9 breaks that norm. That has an effect, though — the 7950X chip has a 170W TDP rating and a max power draw of 230W, the highest power consumption of any Ryzen chip yet.It's also much higher than the previous-gen Ryzen 9 5950X's 105W TDP rating. As we see with Intel's chip, the 7950X is designed to use the full thermal headroom available to deliver more performance. However, the 7950X has a lower 95C thermal limit, so it will frequently operate at 95C while under heavy load. However, Asus applies their Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Extreme on the Intel model, and only the previous-generation liquid metal compound on the AMD model, which is supposed to help lower the CPU temperatures by 2-5 degrees – more or less the difference we’ve recorded in our tests. If not for this aspect, I’d expect much closer temperatures on the two, but the Intel model would still maintain a slight advantage in most games. Efficiency

Core i9-12900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 5950X: Productivity Performance

As far as our ROG review units go, both allow high-power settings in sustained CPU loads, and both utilize Dynamic Boost to shift power from the CPU to the GPU in combined loads when needed. Both are also MUX-capable designs, and overall both are some of the better high-tier laptop designs available in stores, on par with counterparts such as the Alienware m series, Acer Predators, Lenovo Legions, or HP Omens. Like with Alder Lake, Raptor Lake uses a mix of both E-cores and P-cores, these each specialises in different things. P-cores are geared towards power and performance, offering sheer speed, while E-cores are energy efficient. Here’s what we got in our tests on the AMD platform, with the screen’s brightness set at around 120 nits (~60 brightness), 60 Hz refresh, and on Hybrid MUX mode. It's impressive that AMD has wrung so much performance out of its 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X, yet still manages to consume far less power than Intel's eight-core model. That benefit comes via TSMC's 7nm process, while Intel's 14nm process has obviously reached the end of the road in terms of absolute performance and efficiency.

Here's a peek at the results we saw with the Ryzen 9 3900X versus the Core i9-9900K (as well as two other chips in their class) with a host of games on the RTX 2080 Ti and a synthetic benchmark... Unfortunately, this doesn’t quite translate to as strong of a single-core performance, even if AMD is closer than it’s ever been to matching Intel core for core. In our single-core GeekBench and Cinebench tests, the Ryzen 9 3900X scored a 5,569 and 203, respectively. This is definitely a huge leap over the Ryzen 7 2700X, but it’s slower than the 9900K, which scored a 6,333 and 211 in the same tests. But, that’s still between a 4% and 13% difference, so the multi-core gains generally outweigh them. Even when AMD chips were crap people kept complaining about the price of Intel and we're telling people to buy the bargain. I listened unfortunately and missed out on a decade of great Intel chips. All the while I had to keep buying a new AMD chip to keep up. Therefore, did I really save money? Ryzen 9 and Intel i9 chips are both the top end of what AMD and Intel are producing, meaning that all the chips here are premium and expensive, though there is a range of options within each. Finally, here’s how these two 2022 platforms fare in this stress test against their predecessors from 2021, the Intel Core i9-11900H and the AMD Ryzen 9 5900H. As mentioned already, the 12th gen Intel platform offers a massive increase in performance over the 11th gen i9, while the difference between the Ryzen 6000 and 5000 chips is much smaller, within 5% or so.However, I’ll also include a couple of other implementations of the Ryzen 9 6900HX and the Intel Core i9-12900H hardware, to offer a broader range of samples and better showcase the performance differences between them, based on the power and cooling capabilities of each unit. The Core i9-12900K is Intel's first truly innovative high-end desktop CPU in years, showing great potential in its performance/efficiency mixed-core design and support for DDR5 memory. Just expect a high initial cost of adoption—and, perhaps, some PC-gaming growing pains. The cooling modules are identical between these two ROG laptops, with the same design, fan, heatpipes, etc. The outcome of our Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i9-11900K battle seems pretty straightforward on the surface: The Ryzen 9 5900X wins four out of five categories, while also scoring a tie in the features section. Our CPU faceoff ends up being a five to two win in favor of the Ryzen 9 5900X, meaning that the choice should be quite clear for most enthusiasts. The only cores with two threads are Intel’s P-cores, which results in an unbalanced ratio of threads to cores. When Intel is able to reduce the size of its manufacturing process to match that of AMD’s rival TSMC, it will also be able to use a more modern manufacturing method with a more efficient transistor design.

The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X really shows what it’s made of when it comes to multi-threaded workloads. For instance, in both Geekbench and Cinebench R15, the 12-core processor scored a whopping 44,160 and 3,097, respectively. Compared to the Intel Core i9-9900K, which scores 33,173 and 1,873 in the same tests, it’s a night and day difference. For about the same price point, the Ryzen 9 3900X is between 25%-40% faster than the Intel Core i9-9900K in multi-threaded loads. Before we get to talk about benchmarks and performance results, I wanted to touch on the fact that Intel CPU is built on a 10 nm lithography and AMD on a 7 nm technology. This can be misleading because you cannot directly compare the technologies used by Intel and TSMC (which makes the AMD processors). In general, though, Intel’s 11thn gen Core i9 processors tend to require more power than AMD’s R9s for peak performance, and are also less efficient with daily use, something to consider if you plan to use your potential laptop unplugged more than occasionally. With the arrival of the first Ryzen 9 processors in 2019, AMD expanded its ability to rival the performance of competing Core i7 and Core i9 chips from Intel. If you're in the market for the ultimate high-performance, consumer-grade desktop CPU, the Ryzen 9 and Core i9 are both compelling options. In 2021, new second-generation Ryzen 9s in the Ryzen 5000 Series (headed up by the ferociously powerful 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 5950X) have taken the fight to the latest Core i9s. (The Core i9 is now in the 10th and 11th Generations on a new-for-2020 platform, the LGA1200.) With more cores and threads than its chief like-priced Intel competitor, AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X is an excellent 12-core beast of a CPU to power a high-end gaming rig or a multimedia editing station.All in all, expect the Intel Core i9-12900H processor to be faster in demanding loads than the AMD Ryzen 9 6900H platform, as long as it is implemented in a laptop that can supply it with high amounts of power and can properly cool it. On Turbo, the top-performance profile, the Intel platform has a 20% advantage over the AMD hardware at peak power in the first run, which then stabilizes at around 15% sustained. The Intel Core i9-13900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X rivalry places Intel’s 13th-Gen Raptor Lake with an x86 hybrid architecture against AMD’s Zen 4 based Ryzen 7000 family for supremacy at the top of the mainstream desktop PC market. As the Intel vs AMD battle enters a new phase, these two fundamentally different approaches have shifted our list of the best CPUs for our needs, but the competition is closer than it appears on the surface.

Based purely on core and thread count, then, the Ryzen 9 3900X is a likely better choice than the Core i9-9900K for 3D animation work, video editing, and other workflows dependent on a chip's core count. Ryzen, Ryzen, Ryzen! With apologies to The Brady Bunch: For more than a few years now, everywhere you look, AMD has been dominating the content-creator market for desktop CPUs. Through multiple generations of the Zen architecture, starting in 2017, AMD has defined new limits of cores-for-the-money, revolutionizing the kind of desktop power available for media-minded applications. Professional creative users and prosumers alike couldn't be happier with the trend.Intel meanwhile uses the powerful Raptor Lake architecture, which sees improvements of 34% for multi-core and 11% for single-core, over the previous Alder Lake. W (~6-7 h of use) – 1080p fullscreen video on Youtube in Edge, Silent Mode, screen at 60%, WiFi ON; Furthermore, if you’re getting an ultrabook that relies solely on the iGPU for graphics, that’s another major selling point for the Ryzen hardware, where the Radeon 680M iGPU demolishes the Iris Xe iGPU available with Intel processors, as shown in this separate comparison. TerryLaze said:How is the desktop marketplace the wrong battlefield for desktop performance/features? The Intel CPU tends to have an edge over the Ryzen 9 in these tests. We’re looking at roughly 3-8% higher scores in both single-core and some multi-core tests, although in multi-threaded loads the two CPUs trade blows between the different tests.

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