Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Price

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$ 318.24

$ 2.84 slightly less expensive

$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10390 points

2% slightly better overall score

10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12574 points

44% significantly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9694 points

10760 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9533 points

11072 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points

11130 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points

367.23 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.30 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 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

1024 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

64 MiB

156% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,089

83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700 vs Ryzen 9 5900XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900XT is faster than the Core i7-12700. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 9 5900XT 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.