Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7213 points
10% slightly better overall score
6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10096 points
28% slightly better gaming score
7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6311 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6106 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.34 points
184.03 points
14% slightly higher Blender 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

3 GHz
3.6 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7.5 MiB
87% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 1,089
220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Core i5-12490F vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12490F is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. 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 i5-12490F. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12490F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

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 i5-12490F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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