AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Core i5-12400

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 i5-12400

Price

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$ 230.00

$ 153.99

$ 76.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points

2% slightly better overall score

7038 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points

9694 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

6210 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

6013 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5938 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

164.62 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8580 points

8911 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1738 points

2130 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points

8875 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points

2207 points

24% 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

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

4.7 GHz

6% 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

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

176th of 1,089

190th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 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

Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Core i5-12400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3800XT beats the Core i5-12400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3800XT 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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.