AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i5-12400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4057 points

7038 points

73% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

9694 points

49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

6210 points

88% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

6013 points

90% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4797 points

9351 points

94% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

164.62 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points

8911 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points

2130 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points

8875 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points

2207 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.4 GHz

7% 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

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

190th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 3500 vs Core i5-12400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-12400 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.