Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 318.24

$ 11.75 slightly less expensive

$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10228 points

46% significantly better overall score

6986 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12450 points

52% significantly better gaming score

8182 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9520 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

6571 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9357 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

6437 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6750 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

187.18 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

10106 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1922 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.58 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

87% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

96 MiB

283% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

87th of 1,118

207th of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700 vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU because of its 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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.