AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 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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$ 339.99

$ 272.22

$ 67.77 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points

7166 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points

9976 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points

6301 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points

6099 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6209 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6075 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

170.78 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9081 points

9112 points

0.34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1720 points

2182 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points

9032 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

2320 points

36% 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

4.5 GHz

4.6 GHz

2% 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

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

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 3800X vs Core i5-12500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500 performs better than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 3800X has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12500. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. The Core i5-12500 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.

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