AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i7-12700T

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i7-12700T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700T beats the Ryzen 7 5800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Indeed, the Core i7-12700T has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12700T has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12700T.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.