AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 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
12% slightly better overall score
6632 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
22% slightly better gaming score
7128 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
6506 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
6504 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
188.94 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
11628 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
2268 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
174% significantly higher clock speed
1.38 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.9 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1280 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
30 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089
214th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
12th Generation Core i9

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
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i9-12900T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700G beats the Core i9-12900T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly 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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