Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D beats the Core i5-12400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.