Product Compare

Intel Core i9 12900 vs AMD Ryzen 5 230

	CPU Intel Core i9 12900	CPU AMD Ryzen 5 230
General Parameters
Release Date	Jan 2022	Jan 2025
Manufacturer	Intel	Amd
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Core Architecture	Alder Lake-S	Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Integrated Graphics	UHD Graphics 770	Radeon 760M
Generation	Core i9 (Alder Lake-S)
Instruction Set		x86-64
Package
Manufacturing Process	10 nm	4 nm
Socket	Intel Socket 1700	FP8
Power Consumption	65 W	15-30 W
Peak Operating Temperature	72 °C	100 °C
Foundry	Intel
Die Size	215 mm²	178 mm²
Package	FC-LGA16A
Transistor Count		25 billions
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	8	6
Performance Core Threads	16	12
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.4 GHz	3.5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	5.1 GHz	4.9 GHz
Efficiency Cores	8
Efficiency Core Threads	8
Efficiency Core Base Frequency	1800 MHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency	3.8 GHz
Total Core Count	16	6
Total Thread Count	24	12
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	24.0	35
L1 Cache	80 KB per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1.25 MB per core	1 MB per core
L3 Cache	30 MB shared	16 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
SMP	1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800	LPDDR5X-7500,DDR5-5600
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	120 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Max Memory Size		256 GB
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version	5	4.0
PCIe Lanes	20	20
Official Website		Official Link ↗
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics		true
GPU Base Frequency		800 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency		2600 MHz
Shader Units		512
Texture Units		32
Raster Operation Units		16
Execution Units		8
Power Consumption		15
AI Accelerator
NPU		AMD Ryzen™ AI
Theoretical performance		16 TOPS
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1988	1728
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	26454	10612
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2727	2413
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	13396	9082