Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 272.22

$ 57.77 slightly less expensive

$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

2% slightly better overall score

6994 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

21% slightly better gaming score

8202 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

6575 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

6440 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6075 points

6750 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

187.18 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

10106 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1922 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

12% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 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

96 MiB

433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 1,089

194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12500 vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D beats the Core i5-12500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12500. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500.

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.