AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-12100F

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 14.00 slightly less expensive

$ 93.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

5223 points

56% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

8443 points

62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

4270 points

53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

4098 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points

4038 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

106.71 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

7143 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

2123 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

7384 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

2218 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.3 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

58 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

320 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

323rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i3-12100F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-12100F beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100F. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.