Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 12 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6875 points
5% slightly better overall score
6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9088 points
16% slightly better gaming score
7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6235 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6100 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.52 points
184.03 points
23% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
44% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache
4 MiB

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

201st of 1,089
220th of 1,089

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

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500H 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12500H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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