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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Intel Core i7-12700KF. Specifications, performance, tests

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Released
2023-04-06
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
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Intel Core i7-12700KF
Intel Core i7-12700KF

What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D or Intel Core i7-12700KF? Which processor is faster?

Compare the available specifications of these models.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a base frequency of 4.2 GHz. 8 / 16 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 120 W. Released in 2023-04-06.

Intel Core i7-12700KF has a base frequency of 3.60 GHz. 12 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 125 W. Released in Q4/2021.

Differences

  • Higher clock speed

    Around 17% better clock speed

    4.2 GHz left arrow 3.60 GHz
  • Lower stated TDP / base power

    Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

    120 W left arrow 125 W

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    536 place
  • More number of cores

    4 more cores

    12 left arrow 8

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Intel Core i7-12700KF Intel Core i7-12700KF
CPU family and group

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

  • CPU group
    AMD Ryzen 7000 left arrow Intel Core i 12000
  • Family
    Ryzen left arrow Intel Core i7
  • Form Factor
    Desktops / Boxed Processor left arrow -
  • Generation
    6 left arrow 12
  • Predecessor
    AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D left arrow Intel Core i7-11700KF
  • Segment
    Desktop left arrow Desktop / Server
  • Series
    Ryzen 7000 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.

  • Base Frequency
    4.2 GHz left arrow 3.6 GHz
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow hybrid (big.LITTLE)
  • Core Configuration
    8x left arrow -
  • CPU Cores
    8 left arrow 12
  • CPU Threads
    16 left arrow 20
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Boost Clock
    5 GHz left arrow -
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    5.6 GHz left arrow 5 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
    5.4 GHz left arrow -
  • A-Core
    - left arrow 8x Golden Cove
  • B-Core
    - left arrow 4x Gracemont
  • Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
    - left arrow 4.7 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.

  • DirectX Version
    12 left arrow -
  • Execution units
    2 left arrow -
  • Generation
    9 left arrow -
  • GPU Frequency
    2200 MHz left arrow -
  • GPU name
    AMD Radeon Graphics left arrow None
  • GPU Turbo
    2200 MHz left arrow -
  • Graphics Cores
    2 left arrow -
  • Max. displays
    3 left arrow -
  • Max. GPU Memory
    8 GB left arrow -
  • Release date
    Q3/2022 left arrow -
  • Shader
    128 left arrow -
  • Technology
    5 nm left arrow -
Hardware codec support

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-12700KF and AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • ECC
    Yes left arrow No
  • Max. Memory
    128 GB left arrow 256 GB
  • Memory Bandwidth
    83.2 GB/s left arrow -
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR5 left arrow DDR4-3200DDR5-4800
  • PCIe
    PCIe 5.0 left arrow -
  • PCIe lanes
    - left arrow 20
  • PCIe version
    - left arrow 5.0
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Intel Core i7-12700KF 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
    120 W left arrow -
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    89 °C left arrow 100 °C
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    170 W left arrow 125 W
  • TDP (PL2)
    230 W left arrow 228 W / 56 s
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Intel Core i7-12700KF, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Raphael (Zen 4) left arrow Alder Lake S
  • Chip design
    Chiplet left arrow -
  • Codename
    Raphael AM5 left arrow -
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 left arrow SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
  • L2-Cache
    8 MB left arrow 2.5 MB
  • L3-Cache
    96 MB left arrow 25 MB
  • Operating systems
    Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux left arrow -
  • Part Number
    - left arrow BX8071512700K
  • Release date
    2023-04-06 left arrow Q4/2021
  • Socket
    AM5 left arrow LGA 1700
  • Technology
    TSMC 5nm 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 7800X3D Intel Core i7-12700KFResult difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows 292.687665 samples/min Submissions: 56 299.652343 samples/min Submissions: 10 +2.4 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 293.059443 samples/min Submissions: 72 261.198774 samples/min Submissions: 10 -10.9 %
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Linux 333.249041 samples/min Submissions: 10 332.739535 samples/min Submissions: 5 -0.2 %
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Windows 289.884349 samples/min Submissions: 32 283.116113 samples/min Submissions: 6 -2.3 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Linux 318.901589 samples/min Submissions: 58 349.422858 samples/min Submissions: 6 +9.6 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 262.013881 samples/min Submissions: 304 289.770122 samples/min Submissions: 95 +10.6 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 255.841339 samples/min Submissions: 169 274.137726 samples/min Submissions: 32 +7.2 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 252.365344 samples/min Submissions: 333 276.449649 samples/min Submissions: 55 +9.5 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 318.647564 samples/min Submissions: 48 321.017466 samples/min Submissions: 5 +0.7 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 255.855441 samples/min Submissions: 410 273.398609 samples/min Submissions: 43 +6.9 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Linux 328.969128 samples/min Submissions: 33 360.121925 samples/min Submissions: 5 +9.5 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 264.848985 samples/min Submissions: 310 289.715603 samples/min Submissions: 24 +9.4 %
More tests: 2
Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Intel Core i7-12700KFResult difference¹
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Linux 324.125082 samples/min Submissions: 44 347.011907 samples/min Submissions: 6 +7.1 %
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows 265.58705 samples/min Submissions: 555 278.887706 samples/min Submissions: 43 +5.0 %

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 7800X3D

Intel Core i7-12700KF

Results with primary test sources

Published measurements are separate from the archived index. Incomplete conditions and unknown run counts do not support ranking positions or calculated performance differences.

Model TestResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R15 / multi-core 2974 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R15 / single-core 291 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R20 / multi-core 7121 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R20 / single-core 709 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R23 / multi-core 18086 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R23 / single-core 1820 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB

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 7800X3D 10164.770937 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows
System RAM: 96 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. / B650I AORUS ULTRA
Duration: 98.379 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.24.0 / 1M / 12 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
Intel Core i7-12700KF 7153.689873 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.24.0 / 1M / 12 threads / windows
System RAM: 64 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. / B760 GAMING X DDR4
Duration: 139.788 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

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