Intel Core i3-12100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 128.59
$ 48.41 significantly less expensive
$ 177.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5115 points
8583 points
67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8339 points
11637 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4166 points
7604 points
82% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4001 points
7365 points
84% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4034 points
6996 points
73% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.80 points
208.44 points
86% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6822 points
12562 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2105 points
2799 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6766 points
12876 points
90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points
2889 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
4.70 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
5.3 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W
75% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Core i3-12100 vs Ryzen 5 7600X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600X beats the Core i3-12100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-12100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 7600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-12100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-12100 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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