AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i5-12500T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12500T.

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.