Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 272.22

$ 1310.78 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

10% slightly better overall score

6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

27% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

184.03 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1652 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

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 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

193rd of 1,118

231st of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2019 September

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 PRO 3700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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.

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.