Intel Core i7-12700F vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Core i7-12700F vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700F is faster than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 9600X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700F. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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.