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

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 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
$ 1403.01 significantly less expensive
$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points
8% slightly better overall score
6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9788 points
24% slightly better gaming score
7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6212 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6011 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
184.03 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7993 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1652 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
3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
Identical
4.4 GHz

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

198th of 1,118
231st of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

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. In addition, both chips have the same 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.

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.

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