AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i5-12500

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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 i5-12500

Price

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$ 170.99

$ 101.23 significantly less expensive

$ 272.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points

7166 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points

9976 points

43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points

6301 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points

6099 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points

6075 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points

170.78 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points

9112 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points

2182 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points

9032 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points

2320 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz

4.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

480 KiB

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

271st of 1,089

182nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

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 7 2700X vs Core i5-12500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the Ryzen 7 2700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 2700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. The Core i5-12500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.