AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i7-12700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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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$ 224.25

$ 93.99 significantly less expensive

$ 318.24

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

10390 points

62% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

12574 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

9694 points

71% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

9533 points

73% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

9515 points

67% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

259.30 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

21751 points

83% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

9492 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1788 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

10978 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

2375 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.9 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

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

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th 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

2020 May

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 5600X vs Core i7-12700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.