Product Compare

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i7 12700

	CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3500X	CPU Intel Core i7 12700
General Parameters
Release Date	Sep 2019	Jan 2022
Manufacturer	AMD	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Core Architecture	Matisse	Alder Lake
Integrated Graphics	N/A	UHD Graphics 770
Generation	Ryzen 5 (Zen 2 (Matisse))
Instruction Set		x86-64
Processor Number		i7-12700
Package
Transistor Count	3.8 billions
Manufacturing Process	7 nm	10 nm
Socket	AMD Socket AM4	LGA-1700
Power Consumption	65 W	65 W
Peak Operating Temperature	95 °C	100°C
Foundry	TSMC
Die Size	74 mm²
I/O Process Size	12 nm
I/O Die Size	124 mm²
Package	µOPGA-1331
Max Turbo Power Consumption		180 W
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.6 GHz	2.1 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.1 GHz	4.8 GHz
Total Core Count	6	12
Total Thread Count	6	20
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	36.0	21x
L1 Cache	64 KB per core	80 K per core
L2 Cache	512 KB per core	12 MB shared
L3 Cache	32 MB shared	25 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
SMP	1
Performance Cores		8
Performance Core Threads		16
Efficiency Cores		4
Efficiency Core Threads		4
Efficiency Core Base Frequency		1.6 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency		3.6 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-3200	DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	76.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	Yes
Max Memory Size		128 GB
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	4	5.0
PCIe Lanes	24	20
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics		true
GPU Base Frequency		300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency		1500 MHz
Shader Units		256
Texture Units		16
Raster Operation Units		8
Execution Units		32
Power Consumption		15 W
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1166	1868
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	6717	20599
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1650	2491
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	6523	12863