AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs Intel Core i5-12400

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4283 points

7038 points

64% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6364 points

9694 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3616 points

6210 points

71% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3464 points

6013 points

73% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.75 points

164.62 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4973 points

8911 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1368 points

2130 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4938 points

8875 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1356 points

2207 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

2.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

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

8 MiB

18 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

411th of 1,089

190th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 4700U vs Core i5-12400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Ryzen 7 4700U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 4700U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has more threads than the Ryzen 7 4700U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 4700U. Also, the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12400 CPU because of its 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. For instance, the Ryzen 7 4700U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.