Intel Core i7-12700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 61.09 slightly less expensive

$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11540 points

13% slightly better overall score

10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13325 points

52% significantly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10952 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

10760 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10812 points

11072 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10051 points

11130 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

304.26 points

367.23 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

1024 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

64 MiB

156% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

57th of 1,089

83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700K vs Ryzen 9 5900XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900XT is faster than the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700K has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5900XT 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.