Intel Core i3-12100 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 128.59

$ 84.40 significantly less expensive

$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5115 points

7399 points

44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8339 points

8984 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4166 points

6877 points

65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4001 points

6735 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4034 points

6914 points

71% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.80 points

207.23 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6822 points

9632 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2105 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2079 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6766 points

9706 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points

Identical

2147 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.40 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.6 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W

8% slightly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

320 KiB

512 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 1,089

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i3-12100 vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X beats the Core i3-12100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-12100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-12100 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5700X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.