Intel Core i7-12700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 259.99
$ 177.00
$ 82.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11540 points
34% slightly better overall score
8583 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13325 points
14% slightly better gaming score
11637 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10952 points
44% significantly better multitasking score
7604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10812 points
46% significantly better heavy workload score
7365 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10051 points
43% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6996 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

304.26 points
45% significantly higher Blender score
208.44 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

22565 points
45% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
15510 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13491 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
12562 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2487 points
2799 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13854 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12876 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2554 points
2889 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
4.70 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.3 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

190 W
105 W
80% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

57th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i7-12700K vs Ryzen 5 7600X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700K beats the Ryzen 5 7600X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700K has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700K. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X 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.

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

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