Product Compare

Intel Core i5 12500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

	CPU Intel Core i5 12500	CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7900
General Parameters
Release Date	Jan 2022	Jan 2023
Manufacturer	Intel	Amd
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Alder Lake-S	Zen 4 (Raphael)
Processor Number	i5-12500
Integrated Graphics	UHD Graphics 770	Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
Package
Manufacturing Process	10 nm	5 nm
Socket	LGA-1700	AM5
Power Consumption	65 W	65 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	95 °C
Transistor Count		13.1 billions
Max Turbo Power Consumption		90 W
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	6	12
Performance Core Threads	12	24
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.0 GHz	3.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.6 GHz	5.4 GHz
Total Core Count	6	12
Total Thread Count	12	24
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	30x	37x
L1 Cache	64 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1280 K per core	1 MB per core
L3 Cache	18 MB shared	64 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	Yes
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200	DDR5-5200
Max Memory Size	128 GB	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	83.2 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	Yes
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Base Frequency	300 MHz	400 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1450 MHz	2200 MHz
Shader Units	256	128
Texture Units	16	8
Raster Operation Units	8	4
Execution Units	32	2
Power Consumption	15 W	15 W
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5.0	5.0
PCIe Lanes	20	28
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1805	2034
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	12471	29358
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2032	2946
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	6066	17413
Blender	136	463
Passmark CPU Single Core	3680	4149
Passmark CPU Multi Core	19747	48837