Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 177.00

$ 2.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points

8583 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points

11637 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points

7604 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points

7365 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5946 points

6996 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points

208.44 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12380 points

15510 points

25% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8804 points

12562 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2154 points

2799 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points

12876 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points

2889 points

30% slightly 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

2.5 GHz

4.70 GHz

88% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.3 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

32 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

188th of 1,089

121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

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

Yes

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 5 7600X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600X beats the Core i5-12400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400F in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12400F 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.

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 i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.