Intel Core i5-12400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 153.99

$ 1429.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7038 points

8% slightly better overall score

6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9694 points

23% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6013 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.62 points

184.03 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8875 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1652 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

Identical

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

512 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

32 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

190th of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i5-12400 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400 performs better than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400.

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 i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.