Intel Core i5-12600KF 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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$ 169.09

$ 217.05 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9942 points

10007 points

0.65% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12691 points

6% slightly better gaming score

11874 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9055 points

9347 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8840 points

9141 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7997 points

8010 points

0.16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.61 points

263.24 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12301 points

15051 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2520 points

2723 points

8% 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

95th of 1,118

92nd of 1,118

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

Core i5-12600KF vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D beats the Core i5-12600KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores. 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 i5-12600KF. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D outputs less heat than Core i5-12600KF thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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