AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 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

4528 points

5248 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points

7843 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points

4484 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points

4327 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4254 points

5258 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

113.50 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

69% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

386th of 1,089

318th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

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

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Core i5-12450H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450H beats the Ryzen 7 1700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 1700X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 7 1700X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.