Synthetic System Benchmarks
We are going to start with synthetic system application benchmarks on this page. Gaming performance will be shown later on.
PCMark 10
Standard PCMark Benchmark
In the first graph, we are looking at PCMark 10 standard benchmark test, which is an overall system test. PCMark 10 runs a gauntlet of different office, content creation, and desktop workloads. Typical, non-gaming stuff. Right off the bat, we find that the Intel Core i7-12700K is much stronger than the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X in a typical work environment. The Intel Core i7-12700K is 10% faster than the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X.
PCMark Application Benchmark
In this graph, we are looking at PCMark 10’s Applications Benchmark. This test is very specific, it tests the performance of Microsoft Office, using Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and even Edge. We are using Microsoft Office 2021 for these tests. In office workloads, we find that the Intel Core i7-12700K comes out on top over the Ryzen 7 5800X. It appears to be 12% faster in office applications, which is a good bump in performance just doing MS Office.
3DMark
CPU Profile
We are introducing a new test into our suite, we are using 3DMark Professional’s CPU Profile test. This test specifically tests CPUs and reports an overall score, it tests various thread counts. We are going to report on the “Max Threads” and “1-Thread” results only. In “Max Threads” the Intel Core i7-12700K comes out way on top of the Ryzen 7 5800X. The 5800X has 16 threads total, while the 12700K can work on 20 threads. The result of this really shows here, where the 12700K is 30% faster than the 5800X. That is a very significant increase in multi-threading performance.
In this test above we are testing just a single thread of performance, this really shows how good single-thread performance differs. Even working on just 1-thread, the Intel Core i7-12700K is faster versus the 5800X, by 10%. This shows that the 12700K is faster than the 5800X on a per-core basis, the IPC is higher.
Geekbench 5
Next up we have the latest version of Geekbench 5. This benchmark tests overall CPU performance and can show us a result in both multi-core and single-core performance. This test replicates what we saw in 3DMark for multi-threaded performance, the new 12700K is much faster than the 5800X in multi-threaded workloads. It’s a whopping 55% faster than the 5800X in this benchmark, which is a mind-blowing difference, to be honest. It really shows how much better the 12700K can be.
In Single-Core performance we also find the 12700K strong, just on a per-core/per-thread basis, the 12700K here is 13% faster than the 5800X, which can add up in multi-threading.