Intel Core i5-12500T vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 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

4814 points

5252 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7022 points

7216 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4142 points

4621 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3986 points

4465 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.85 points

172.19 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7554 points

8481 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2155 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2104 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.50 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

28 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7.5 MiB

25% slightly more L2 cache

6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

365th of 1,089

317th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12500T vs Ryzen 5 7640U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7640U is faster than the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7640U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640U outputs less heat than Core i5-12500T thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7640U. The Core i5-12500T also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-12500T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.