amd ryzen 7 5700g vs intel core i5 12400

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 7 5700G (Desktop) 8-cores against Intel Core i5 12400 (Desktop) 6-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and Intel Core i5 12400
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • 4% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.6 GHz vs 4.4 GHz)
  • Unlocked multiplier
Advantages of Intel Core i5 12400
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • Around 25.6 GB/s (33%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1720
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
14117
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
24653
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 7 5700g and core i5 12400

General

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Intel Core i5 12400
Vendor AMD Intel
Released April 13 2021 January 4 2022
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Cezanne Alder Lake-S
Socket AM4 FCLGA1700
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000) Intel UHD Graphics 730

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Intel Core i5 12400
Cores 8 6
Threads 16 12
Base Frequency 3.8 GHz 2.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.6 GHz 4.4 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1.25 MB (per core)
L3 Cache 16 MB 18 MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Power

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Intel Core i5 12400
Fabrication process 7 nm Intel 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 W 65 W
Max. temperature 95°C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Intel Core i5 12400
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Memory Size GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.196 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Intel Core i5 12400
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000) Intel UHD Graphics 730
GPU Base Clock MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.45 MHz
Shading Units 512 192
TMUs 32 48
ROPs 8 24
Execution Units 24
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
TFLOPS
0.35 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Intel Core i5 12400
Official site AMD Ryzen 7 5700G official page Intel Core i5 12400 official page
PCI Express Version 4
PCI Express Lanes 20

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i5 12400 or AMD Ryzen 7 5700G?