Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

7166 points

7478 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

10030 points

0.54% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

6652 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

6441 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

199.09 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

189th of 1,102

172nd of 1,102

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12500 vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D is faster than the Core i5-12500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads.

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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.