AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs Intel Core i5 12500T

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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Intel Core i5 12500T

We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with 16 cores 4.5GHz and Intel Core i5 12500T with 6 cores 2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Higher specification of memory (5200 vs 4800)

Higher base frequency (4.5GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 18MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)

Intel Core i5 12500T 's Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 73.4GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 5.0)

Lower TDP (35W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +31%

3068

Intel Core i5 12500T

2341

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +143%

21409

Intel Core i5 12500T

8784

Cinebench 2024 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +18%

120

Intel Core i5 12500T

101

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

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Intel Core i5 12500T

General Parameters

Aug 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

x86-64

Instruction Set

-

Zen 4 (Raphael)

Core Architecture

Alder Lake-S

AM5

Socket

Intel Socket 1700

Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 770

-

Generation

Core i5 (Alder Lake-S)

Package

13.1 billions

Transistor Count

-

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

170 W

Power Consumption

35 W

230 W

Max Turbo Power Consumption

-

95°C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

Foundry

Intel

-

Die Size

163 mm²

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

-

32

Performance Core Threads

-

4.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2 GHz

5.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.4 GHz

16

Total Core Count

6

32

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

45x

Multiplier

20.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

80 KB per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

1.25 MB per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

18 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

-

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5200

Memory Types

DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800

128 GB

Max Memory Size

128 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

73.4 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

1500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

300 MHz

2200 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1450 MHz

448

Shader Units

-

8

Texture Units

-

4

Raster Operation Units

-

2

Execution Units

32

15 W

Power Consumption

-

1.43 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

-

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Official Website

Intel Core i5 12500T

5.0

PCIe Version

5

28

PCIe Lanes

20

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