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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Core i5-12400F. Specifications, performance, tests

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2019-07-07
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
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Q1/2022
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Intel Core i5-12400F
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What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel Core i5-12400F? Which processor is faster?

We have prepared a comparison to help you choose the best processor. Compare their specifications and benchmarks.

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X has a base frequency of 3.6 GHz. 8 / 16 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 65 W. Released in 2019-07-07.

Intel Core i5-12400F has a base frequency of 2.50 GHz. 6 / 12 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 65 W. Released in Q1/2022.

Differences

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    102 left arrow place
  • Higher clock speed

    Around 44% better clock speed

    3.6 GHz left arrow 2.50 GHz
  • More number of cores

    2 more cores

    8 left arrow 6

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    140 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    113 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    109 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    103 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    90 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    123 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    231 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    172 place
  • Monero Hashrate kH/s
    31 place
  • Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
    28 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    112 place
  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    88 left arrow place

Positions in all rankings

Common positions Intel Core i5-12400F CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    53 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    105 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    28 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    109 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    99 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    143 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Intel Core i5-12400F Intel Core i5-12400F
CPU family and group

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

  • CPU group
    AMD Ryzen 3000 left arrow Intel Core i 12000
  • Family
    Ryzen left arrow Intel Core i5
  • Form Factor
    Desktops / Boxed Processor left arrow -
  • Generation
    3 left arrow 12
  • Predecessor
    AMD Ryzen 7 2700X left arrow Intel Core i5-11400F
  • Segment
    Desktop / Server left arrow Desktop / Server
  • Series
    Ryzen 3000 Series left arrow -
CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

  • A-Core
    - left arrow 6x Golden Cove
  • Base Frequency
    3.6 GHz left arrow 2.5 GHz
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
  • CPU Cores
    8 left arrow 6
  • CPU Threads
    16 left arrow 12
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Boost Clock
    4.4 GHz left arrow -
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow No
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    4.4 GHz left arrow 4.4 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
    4 GHz left arrow -
  • Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
    - left arrow 4 GHz
IGPU

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

  • GPU name
    None left arrow None
Hardware codec support

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

  • AV1
    No left arrow No
  • H.264 / AVC
    No left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    No left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    No left arrow No
  • JPEG
    No left arrow No
  • VC-1
    No left arrow No
  • VP8
    No left arrow No
  • VP9
    No left arrow No
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-12400F and AMD Ryzen 7 3700X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • ECC
    Yes left arrow No
  • Max. Memory
    128 GB left arrow 128 GB
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR4 left arrow DDR4-3200DDR5-4800
  • PCIe
    PCIe 4.0 x16 left arrow 5.0 x 20
  • PCIe lanes
    20 left arrow -
  • PCIe version
    4.0 left arrow -
  • System Memory Specification
    3200 left arrow -
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Intel Core i5-12400F Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

  • Default TDP
    65 W left arrow -
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    95 °C left arrow 100 °C
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    65 W left arrow 65 W
  • TDP (PL2)
    - left arrow 117 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Intel Core i5-12400F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Matisse (Zen 2) left arrow Alder Lake S
  • Codename
    Matisse left arrow -
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 left arrow SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
  • L1-Cache
    0.5 MB left arrow -
  • L2-Cache
    4 MB left arrow 7.5 MB
  • L3-Cache
    32 MB left arrow 18 MB
  • Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
    100-100000071BOX left arrow -
  • Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
    100-100000071MPK left arrow -
  • Manufacturer product ID (tray)
    100-000000071 left arrow -
  • Operating systems
    Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit left arrow -
  • Release date
    2019-07-07 left arrow Q1/2022
  • Socket
    AM4 left arrow LGA 1700
  • Technology
    TSMC 7nm FinFET left arrow 10 nm
  • Virtualization
    AMD-V, SVM left arrow VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 14

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 3700X Intel Core i5-12400FResult difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows 172.081997 samples/min Submissions: 20 166.939907 samples/min Submissions: 12 -3.0 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 173.786966 samples/min Submissions: 19 169.74955 samples/min Submissions: 19 -2.3 %
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Windows 181.03671 samples/min Submissions: 7 163.569856 samples/min Submissions: 8 -9.6 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 169.87457 samples/min Submissions: 82 154.23191 samples/min Submissions: 94 -9.2 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Linux 189.39345 samples/min Submissions: 10 188.63931 samples/min Submissions: 10 -0.4 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 167.274174 samples/min Submissions: 50 146.386328 samples/min Submissions: 40 -12.5 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 193.02372 samples/min Submissions: 20 198.128399 samples/min Submissions: 15 +2.6 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 164.30955 samples/min Submissions: 63 145.751849 samples/min Submissions: 65 -11.3 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 193.296986 samples/min Submissions: 16 197.967794 samples/min Submissions: 5 +2.4 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 164.46996 samples/min Submissions: 92 148.953521 samples/min Submissions: 121 -9.4 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Linux 195.508577 samples/min Submissions: 11 199.716739 samples/min Submissions: 7 +2.2 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 173.575914 samples/min Submissions: 44 158.67054 samples/min Submissions: 58 -8.6 %
More tests: 2
Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 3700X Intel Core i5-12400FResult difference¹
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Linux 196.530057 samples/min Submissions: 26 197.430931 samples/min Submissions: 19 +0.5 %
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows 175.205341 samples/min Submissions: 120 157.851555 samples/min Submissions: 96 -9.9 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Intel Core i5-12400F

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8328.336332 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows
System RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. / ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING
Duration: 120.072 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 9 threads / linux

Model ResultReported conditions
Intel Core i5-12400F 8041.558776 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 9 threads / linux
System RAM: 16 GB
OS: Linux x86_64
Motherboard: ASRock / B660M PG Riptide
Duration: 124.354 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

Based on the results of several benchmarks, you can more accurately estimate the difference in performance between AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Intel Core i5-12400F.

Compare the synthetic test values and choose the best processor!

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted.

Recent models: test results with identified primary sources — Cinebench R23 · Cinebench R20 · Cinebench R15 · Cinebench 2026 · RandomX benchmark

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Maxon's Cinebench R23 SC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

1294.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
1623.000000
Intel Core i5-12400F
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Maxon's Cinebench R23 MC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

12355.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
12454.000000
Intel Core i5-12400F
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R20 SC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

501.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
664.000000
Intel Core i5-12400F
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R20 MC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

4834.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
4784.000000
Intel Core i5-12400F
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 SC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

1252.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
1647.000000
Intel Core i5-12400F
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 MC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

8732.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
9451.000000
Intel Core i5-12400F

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