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

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Between the two, it comes down to what types of games you intend to play. However, between these two choices and a lower-end CPU on the same platforms (say, an Intel Core i5-10600K or an AMD Ryzen 3 3300X), it comes down to the resolution you plan to play at. Both the Core i9-10900K and the Ryzen 9 5900X qualify as overkill for most games played at resolutions above 1080p, so if you've got either a 1440p or 4K display, you'd be better served spending less on your CPU and shifting the rest of that budget into a beefier graphics card instead...assuming "money" is a finite thing for you. 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. For example, if you're playing a PC game while talking to your friends on Discord, the load of the game will be handled by the P-cores, while the job of processing Discord is sent to the E-cores. This is all done through intelligent scheduling in Windows 11, via a service that Intel is calling Thread Director. The company says it plans to make this technology available only for that operating system. No Windows 10-based Thread Director is set for release.

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. Both chips have multi-threading support, which means that each core can handle two instruction threads from software simultaneously. So the Ryzen 9 3900X can handle 24 instruction threads, while the Core i9-9900K can handle 16. Again, if your software of choice is optimized to parcel out tasks to as many processing threads as it can, more is better here. 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.Meanwhile, the Photoshop and Premiere Pro benchmarks designed by Puget Systems involve many different task types—file retrieval, storage, image rendering, editing operations, and the like—that are run in sequence. This gives Thread Director "something to do," as it were, sidelining resources when the load of the run is lighter, and then redistributing them when it's time to render or edit. The result is a clear improvement in the overall score, and at face value, it suggests that you could save a reasonable amount of time working in an Adobe program on a Windows 11-based Intel Core i9-12900K machine, versus on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, or on a Core i9-12900K running on Windows 10. Intel’s 12th Generation Alder Lake and 13th Generation Raptor Lake processors have switched up the terminology with the measure "Base Power," which is essentially the same as TDP. That said, to simplify laptop shopping, we’re going to rope TDP and Processor Base Power under one blanket term: processor power rating. Intel’s core counts aren’t directly comparable to AMD’s due to their various capabilities and the latter’s new hybrid architecture with two separate sorts of cores. The worth of the overall designs will be determined by our performance outcomes. AMD Ryzen 9 vs Intel Core i9: Gaming Benchmarks

We did measure some differences in temperatures and fan noise on these two Legion 7 variants. Here are some recordings in Horizon: Zero Dawn, on the Performance OC profile in both cases: Mode We tested the CPUs here on their respective platforms in Windows 10 using a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti card. As you can see from our gaming runs above, things are actually quite close between the two processors, despite 12th Gen's ostensible platform and newness advantage. Between the two, the difference falls nearly within the margin of error for all tests aside from 3DMark, and that score is one that more accurately reflects the system advantage as a whole, rather than just the performance of the chip on its own. Intel's Core i9-9900K mainstream flagship CPU is a spirited performer, no matter what you task it with. If you don't need the RAM bandwidth or PCI Express lanes of Intel's Core X or AMD's Threadripper platforms, this chip is peak silicon for a new build. The Intel platform has a ~5-20% advantage in Blender and the CPU heavier workloads, while the two platforms perform similarly in the mixed loads. The next batch of work-related loads showcases the difference between the two in creative activities. Turbo modeJust as it is with desktops, at the heart of every laptop computer is a central processing unit (CPU), commonly called a processor or a chip, that's responsible for nearly everything that goes on inside. The CPUs you'll find in current laptops are made by AMD, Intel, Apple, and Qualcomm. The options may seem endless and their names byzantine. But choosing one is easier than you think, once you know a few CPU ground rules.

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... Both CPUs include integrated graphics, however, Intel has the advantage here thanks to UHD Graphics 770. It is not advisable to rely on AMD’s Radeon-integrated GPU for demanding applications like gaming and video editing because it is primarily utilized for visual output. Before I joined the tech-journalism ranks, I wrote on topics as diverse as Borneo's rain forests, Middle Eastern airlines, and Big Data's role in presidential elections. A graduate of Middlebury College, I also have a master's degree in journalism and French Studies from New York University. That increased IPC improvements, along with the massive turbo boost of 4.6GHz mean that even in single core performance – long a weak link of AMD’s processors – comes within reaching distance of Team Blue’s chips.That’s partially due to the extra Cores/Threads and processing capabilities of the i9-12900H processor, but also due to the fact that the Intel processor runs at ~110W of stabilized power, while the AMD model runs at 90W. However, at 90W the Ryzen 9 already delivers the maximum possible performance, so there’s no need for it to run at higher power, while the i9 could squeeze a few percents faster results if supplied with even more power.

There are several different CPUs under the Ryzen 9 and Intel i9 umbrella. All are top-end and powerful chips, ideal for intensive gaming though exact performance varies depending on which one you go for. And every other YouTube channel and media outlet will say but amd's 3D chips will be coming out. "Wait".It took until late 2021, but chip giant Intel finally has a credible response to that marching line of Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 chips treading across its traditional lawn. Take its new desktop-CPU flagship: Its first real contender in quite some time is the Core i9-12900K, part of a six-CPU launch for 12th Generation Core processors (dubbed the "Alder Lake" family) that establishes the groundwork for how Intel Core chips on the desktop will look and work for years to come. At both 1080p and 1440p resolutions, the Core i9-13900K outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X by 15% and 11%, respectively. When we consider 99th percentile frame rate measurements, it too has a noticeable advantage. The Core i9-13900K is, in the end, the fastest gaming processor money can buy. 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.