Intel Core i3-12100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5115 points

5% slightly better overall score

4837 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8339 points

20% slightly better gaming score

6909 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4166 points

4216 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4001 points

4083 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.80 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

103.14 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6766 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6293 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1663 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W

15 W

300% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

320 KiB

384 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 1,089

361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i3-12100 vs Ryzen 5 5560U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5560U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5560U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-12100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5560U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.