AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i5-12400

Compare AMD 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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Intel Core i5-12400

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 23.99 slightly less expensive

$ 153.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

7038 points

69% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

9694 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

6210 points

83% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

6013 points

84% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

5938 points

53% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

164.62 points

91% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

8911 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

2130 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

8875 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

2207 points

40% slightly 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

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

32 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

190th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i5-12400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-12400 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.