Intel Core i7-12700F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Price

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$ 244.97

$ 188.99

$ 55.98 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10416 points

32% slightly better overall score

7857 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12172 points

15% slightly better gaming score

10525 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

6994 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9714 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

6774 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9522 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6449 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

270.50 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

197.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11785 points

12599 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2387 points

2751 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.70 GHz

12% 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 1,089

152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i7-12700F vs Ryzen 5 7500F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700F beats the Ryzen 5 7500F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7500F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700F has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7500F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700F.

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