AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i5-12400

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series 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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$ 184.99

$ 153.99

$ 31.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points

5% slightly better overall score

7038 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points

9694 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

6210 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

6013 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5938 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

164.62 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points

8911 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points

2130 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points

0.80% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8875 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points

2207 points

9% 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

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

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

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089

190th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

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 5700G vs Core i5-12400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400 performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.