AMD Athlon Gold 20 vs Intel Core i9 12900HX
CPU Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Oct 2025
May 2022
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Laptop
Core Architecture
Mendocino
Alder Lake
Integrated Graphics
Radeon 610M
UHD Graphics (32EU)
Generation
Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))
-
Instruction Set
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x86-64
Processor Number
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i9-12900HX
Package
Manufacturing Process
6 nm
10 nm
Socket
AMD Socket FT6
BGA-1964
Power Consumption
15 W
45-55 W
Peak Operating Temperature
95°C
100°C
Foundry
TSMC
-
Die Size
100 mm²
-
Package
FT6
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Max Turbo Power Consumption
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157 W
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.4 GHz
2.3 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.7 GHz
5 GHz
Total Core Count
2
16
Total Thread Count
4
24
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
24.0
23x
L1 Cache
64 KB per core
80 K per core
L2 Cache
512 KB per core
1280 K per core
L3 Cache
4 MB shared
30 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Yes
SMP
1
-
Performance Cores
-
8
Performance Core Threads
-
16
Efficiency Cores
-
8
Efficiency Core Threads
-
8
Efficiency Core Base Frequency
-
1.7 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency
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3.6 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
LPDDR5-5500
DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Max Memory Channels
2
2
ECC Memory Support
No
No
Max Memory Size
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128 GB
Max Memory Bandwidth
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76.8 GB/s
Miscellaneous
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
-
true
GPU Base Frequency
-
300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
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1550 MHz
Shader Units
-
256
Texture Units
-
16
Raster Operation Units
-
8
Execution Units
-
32
Power Consumption
-
45 W
📊 Benchmark
Geekbench 6
888
2,519
Geekbench 6
1,822
14,447
Cinebench R23
-
1,904
Cinebench R23
-
20,977
Geekbench 5
-
1,896
Geekbench 5
-
16,154
Blender
-
280
Passmark CPU
-
3,874
Passmark CPU
-
34,632