AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i7-12700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-12700

Price

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$ 269.00

$ 49.24 slightly less expensive

$ 318.24

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points

10390 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

12574 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

9694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

9533 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

9515 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

259.30 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points

21751 points

5% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11764 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

9492 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2141 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1788 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

10978 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points

2375 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

4.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

960 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

156% significantly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089

78th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

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 5900X vs Core i7-12700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i7-12700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.