Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Price

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$ 184.46

$ 65.71 significantly less expensive

$ 250.17

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9422 points

9424 points

0.02% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12057 points

6% slightly better gaming score

11316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8581 points

8790 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8381 points

8596 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8019 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7868 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.94 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

229.92 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11863 points

12976 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2478 points

2647 points

6% 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

4.10 GHz

10% 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

65 W

130% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

102nd of 1,089

101st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2024 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 8700F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8700F performs better than the Core i5-12600K. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8700F has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600K. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8700F outputs less heat than Core i5-12600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.