Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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.