Intel Core i7-12700KF vs AMD EPYC 7543P

Core i7-12700KF vs EPYC 7543P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700KF beats the EPYC 7543P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 7543P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores with 32 cores compared to the Core i7-12700KF that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 7543P. Also, the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700KF CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 7543P CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.