AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-12700F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 287.24
$ 244.97
$ 42.27 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
7% slightly better overall score
10416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
12172 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
9844 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
9714 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
9522 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
270.50 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points
76% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
15291 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
11687 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
2341 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
11785 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2387 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
33% slightly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
60% significantly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
Identical
4.9 GHz

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

1024 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache
960 KiB

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

66th of 1,089
77th 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
No

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i7-12700F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700F performs better than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5950X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700F. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-12700F 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.

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