AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i5-12400F

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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Price

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$ 184.99
$ 179.99
$ 5.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points
5% slightly better overall score
7069 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
9794 points
12% 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
6009 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points
12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5946 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
159.61 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13788 points
11% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
12380 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points
8804 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
2154 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
9125 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
2218 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

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

2
Identical
2

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
188th 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
No

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i5-12400F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Ryzen 7 5700G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700G has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. 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.

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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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