Intel Core i5-10600 vs Intel Core i5-12600

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12600

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 39.78 slightly less expensive

$ 328.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5421 points

7189 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7561 points

10529 points

39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4735 points

6169 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4578 points

5948 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

138.09 points

178.59 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6447 points

9785 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1606 points

2350 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6270 points

9645 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1624 points

2382 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

Identical

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

Identical

4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

18 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

301st of 1,089

178th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-10600 vs Core i5-12600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Core i5-10600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i5-10600 and Core i5-12600 have the same clock speed. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.