Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points
166% significantly better overall score
2650 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9788 points
132% significantly better gaming score
4215 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6212 points
183% significantly better multitasking score
2190 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6011 points
185% significantly better heavy workload score
2104 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
233% significantly higher Blender score
47.87 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8804 points
225% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2704 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2154 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
923 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points
249% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2612 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
903 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
350% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

198th of 1,120
623rd of 1,120

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12400F has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Also, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Core i5-12400F 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 i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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