Intel Core i7-12700F vs Intel Core i5-14500

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs Intel 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14500

Price

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$ 244.97

$ 3.71 slightly less expensive

$ 248.68

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10416 points

9% slightly better overall score

9533 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12172 points

1% slightly better gaming score

12007 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

8804 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9714 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

8680 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9522 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

9078 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

270.50 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

248.96 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11785 points

12760 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2387 points

2520 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

4% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 1,089

99th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700F vs Core i5-14500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700F is faster than the Core i5-14500. Despite this, the Core i5-14500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14500 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500.

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