Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 318.24
$ 135.32
$ 182.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10313 points
64% significantly better overall score
6267 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12552 points
50% significantly better gaming score
8333 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9600 points
71% significantly better multitasking score
5604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9437 points
73% significantly better heavy workload score
5431 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points
67% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5664 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points
71% significantly higher Blender score
150.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9492 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8330 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1788 points
1980 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8600 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2052 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.50 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
32 MiB
28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

80th of 1,096
243rd of 1,096

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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