Core i7-12700KF vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700KF performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8500G in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700KF has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 5 8500G outputs less heat than Core i7-12700KF 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 i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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