Intel Core i7-12700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Core i7-12700K vs Ryzen 5 4500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 4500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700K has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-12700K and Ryzen 5 4500 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K thanks to a 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 i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.