AMD Ryzen 7 5700X vs Intel Core i7-12700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 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

7399 points

8351 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8984 points

10838 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6877 points

7548 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6735 points

7300 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

207.23 points

224.34 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9706 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9560 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points

2256 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz

142% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

2% 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

Identical

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

12 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 1,089

132nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5700X vs Core i7-12700T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700T is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700T has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700T. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12700T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12700T.

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