AMD Ryzen 5 7500F vs Intel Core i7-12700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

7857 points
8351 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10525 points
10838 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6994 points
7548 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6774 points
7300 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

197.05 points
224.34 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12599 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9560 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2751 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2256 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.70 GHz
164% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
960 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
12 MiB
100% significantly more L2 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

152nd of 1,089
132nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 July
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 7500F vs Core i7-12700T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700T beats the Ryzen 5 7500F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7500F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700T has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700T. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12700T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12700T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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