Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 15.31 slightly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points

8673 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points

12393 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points

7498 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points

7245 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5946 points

7587 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points

233.29 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points

14957 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points

3338 points

50% 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

2.5 GHz

3.9 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

Identical

480 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

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 August

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 9600X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600X performs better than the Core i5-12400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400F in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.