AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-12700

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i7-12700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5950X performs better than the Core i7-12700. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-12700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.