AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-12700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-12700

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 238.25 significantly less expensive

$ 318.24

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

10390 points

211% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

12574 points

142% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

9694 points

248% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

9533 points

257% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points

9515 points

155% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

259.30 points

301% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points

21751 points

372% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

9492 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

1788 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

10978 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

2375 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

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

4.9 GHz

32% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

960 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

78th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i7

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i7-12700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.