Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 206.15 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points

10011 points

41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points

11884 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points

9348 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points

9142 points

52% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5946 points

8010 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points

263.24 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12380 points

18086 points

46% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points

15051 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points

2723 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4.20 GHz

68% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 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

96 MiB

433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

188th of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F.

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.