Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 272.22

$ 212.99

$ 59.23 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

7399 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

11% slightly better gaming score

8984 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

6877 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

6735 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6075 points

6914 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

207.23 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9112 points

9632 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2182 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2079 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

9706 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2147 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

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

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

182nd of 1,089

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12500 vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500 performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. 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.

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.