Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 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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$ 318.24

$ 67.90 slightly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10390 points

3% slightly better overall score

10011 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12574 points

5% slightly better gaming score

11884 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9694 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

9348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9533 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

9142 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8010 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points

263.24 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

21751 points

20% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

18086 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points

15051 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points

2723 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4.20 GHz

27% 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

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 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

78th of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

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 7800X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700 performs better than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700.

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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.