Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Price

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$ 184.46

$ 91.90 significantly less expensive

$ 276.36

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9422 points

10739 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12057 points

12739 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8581 points

10048 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8381 points

9834 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8019 points

8548 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.94 points

266.15 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

17491 points

18760 points

7% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11486 points

14475 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2357 points

2771 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11863 points

14835 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2478 points

2879 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.80 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.3 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W

65 W

130% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

800 KiB

56% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

32 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

102nd of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 January

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 i5-12600K vs Ryzen 7 7700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700 is faster than the Core i5-12600K. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600K.

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 i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.