AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i5-12500

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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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Intel Core i5-12500

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 42.23 slightly less expensive

$ 272.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points

17% slightly better overall score

7166 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points

9976 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

6301 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

6099 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points

41% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6075 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

170.78 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

9112 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points

2182 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9032 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points

2320 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

480 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

255% significantly more L3 cache

18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089

182nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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 9 3900X vs Core i5-12500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900X is faster than the Core i5-12500. Despite this, the Core i5-12500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. The Core i5-12500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.