Intel Core i3-12100F vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Core i3-12100F vs Ryzen 7 5825U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-12100F beats the Ryzen 7 5825U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5825U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5825U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100F. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5825U has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-12100F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5825U outputs less heat than Core i3-12100F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-12100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.