Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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 7800X3D

Price

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$ 184.46

$ 201.68 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9422 points

10011 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12057 points

1% slightly better gaming score

11884 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8581 points

9348 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8381 points

9142 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8019 points

0.11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8010 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.94 points

263.24 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

17491 points

18086 points

3% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11863 points

15051 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2478 points

2723 points

9% 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

4.20 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W

120 W

25% slightly 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

96 MiB

380% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

102nd of 1,089

88th 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 April

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 7800X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D performs better 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 7800X3D. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600K.

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