Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Price

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$ 272.22

$ 29.34 slightly less expensive

$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

11120 points

55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

13778 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

10239 points

62% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

9995 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6075 points

9722 points

60% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

302.05 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

16965 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

3349 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

5.5 GHz

19% 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

640 KiB

33% 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

67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

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 9700X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Core i5-12500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 9700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12500 that 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.

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.