Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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
$ 275.06 significantly less expensive
$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points
10982 points
55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points
13108 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points
10252 points
65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points
10031 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5946 points
10082 points
69% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
325.43 points
103% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points
18346 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
3336 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
4.7 GHz
87% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.2 GHz
18% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
640 KiB
33% 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
70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 9800X3D 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12400F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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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