Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 179.99
$ 33.00 slightly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points
7399 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points
9% slightly better gaming score
8984 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points
6877 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points
6735 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5946 points
6914 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
207.23 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12380 points
13184 points
6% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8804 points
9632 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2154 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2079 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points
9706 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2147 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.40 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.6 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

188th of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
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

No
Yes

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400F performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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