AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 12 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

7430 points
8% slightly better overall score
6875 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
9088 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
6235 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
6100 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points
8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6198 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
149.52 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13788 points
14686 points
6% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

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
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache

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
201st 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i5-12500H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500H 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700G. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5700G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700G. The Core i5-12500H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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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