Intel Core i5-12500T vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4814 points
11169 points
132% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7022 points
13813 points
96% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4142 points
10291 points
148% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3986 points
10045 points
152% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.85 points
302.05 points
158% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7554 points
16965 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2155 points
3349 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3.8 GHz
89% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
85% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
640 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7.5 MiB
8 MiB
6% slightly more L2 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

381st of 1,119
72nd of 1,119

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

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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