Intel Core i5-12600KF 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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$ 169.09

$ 107.27 significantly less expensive

$ 276.36

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9948 points

10739 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12699 points

12739 points

0.31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9060 points

10048 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8845 points

9834 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7997 points

8548 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.61 points

266.15 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12253 points

14475 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2468 points

2771 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12301 points

14835 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2520 points

2879 points

14% 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

92nd 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

Core i5-12600KF vs Ryzen 7 7700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12600KF performs better than the Ryzen 7 7700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores. 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 i5-12600KF.

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