Product Compare

Intel Core i9 12900KS vs AMD Athlon Silver 10

	CPU Intel Core i9 12900KS	CPU AMD Athlon Silver 10
General Parameters
Release Date	Apr 2022	Oct 2025
Manufacturer	Intel	AMD
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Instruction Set	x86-64
Core Architecture	Alder Lake-S	Mendocino
Processor Number	i9-12900KS
Integrated Graphics	UHD Graphics 770	Radeon 610M
Generation		Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))
Package
Manufacturing Process	10 nm	6 nm
Socket	LGA-1700	AMD Socket FT6
Power Consumption	150 W	15 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	95°C
Foundry		TSMC
Die Size		100 mm²
Package		FT6
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	8
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	5.5 GHz	3.5 GHz
Efficiency Cores	8
Total Core Count	16	2
Total Thread Count	24	2
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	34x	24.0
L1 Cache	64 K per core	64 KB per core
L2 Cache	14 MB shared	512 KB per core
L3 Cache	30 MB shared	2 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
SMP		1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200	LPDDR5-5500
Max Memory Size	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true
GPU Base Frequency	300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1550 MHz
Shader Units	256
Texture Units	16
Raster Operation Units	8
Execution Units	32
Power Consumption	15 W
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5.0	3
PCIe Lanes	20	4
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2559	785
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	15546	1377