AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs Intel Core i5-12400F

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 339.99
$ 179.99
$ 160.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points
7069 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points
9794 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points
6210 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points
6009 points
0.35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6209 points
4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5946 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
159.61 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9081 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8804 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1720 points
2154 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points
9125 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
2218 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

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

2
Identical
2

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

218th of 1,089
188th 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
No

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Core i5-12400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Ryzen 7 3800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400F outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 7 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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