Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 318.24
$ 250.17
$ 68.07 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10390 points
10% slightly better overall score
9424 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12574 points
11% slightly better gaming score
11316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9694 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
8790 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9533 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
8596 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points
20% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7868 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
229.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points
12976 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points
2647 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
4.10 GHz
24% 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
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,089
101st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

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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Core i7-12700 vs Ryzen 7 8700F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700 performs better than the Ryzen 7 8700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8700F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8700F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.

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