AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Core i5-12400F

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 235.99
$ 179.99
$ 56.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points
7069 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points
9794 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points
6210 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points
6009 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points
159.61 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5474 points
8804 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1162 points
2154 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points
9125 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points
2218 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
65 W
176% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

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

16 MiB
18 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

269th of 1,089
188th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
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 Threadripper 1900X vs Core i5-12400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400F performs better than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. The Core i5-12400F outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X 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 Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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