AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Core i5-12600KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12600KF

Price

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$ 230.00

$ 169.09

$ 60.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points

9948 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points

12699 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

9060 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points

8845 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points

7997 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points

226.61 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8580 points

12253 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1738 points

2468 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points

12301 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points

2520 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

4.9 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

42% much lower TDP

150 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

800 KiB

56% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

176th of 1,089

92nd 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

2021 November

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 i5-12600KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600KF beats the Ryzen 7 3800XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3800XT has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-12600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600KF CPU because of its much 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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.