Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

2% slightly better overall score

7004 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

10197 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

5978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

5757 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6075 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5932 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

192.43 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

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

190th of 1,107

202nd of 1,107

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

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 7600X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-12500 has more threads. 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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.