AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 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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$ 198.00

$ 74.22 significantly less expensive

$ 272.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points

7166 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points

9976 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points

6301 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points

6099 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points

6075 points

0.38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

170.78 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116 points

9112 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623 points

2182 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points

9032 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points

2320 points

38% slightly 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

4.4 GHz

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

480 KiB

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

233rd 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

2019 July

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 3700X vs Core i5-12500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the Ryzen 7 3700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. 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 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.