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

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. Also, the Ryzen 5 7500F 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 i7-12700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.