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

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
50% significantly better overall score
7424 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
7% slightly better gaming score
9222 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
68% significantly better multitasking score
6907 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
73% significantly better heavy workload score
6820 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
63% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
7238 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
109% significantly higher Blender score
194.62 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points
40% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
19330 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
14% slightly more cores
14

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
60% significantly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
45 W
133% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
1120 KiB
9% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089
169th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i7-12700H benchmarks

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

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-12700H that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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