Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 272.22

$ 149.48

$ 122.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

11% slightly better overall score

6416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

15% slightly better gaming score

8665 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

5694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

5516 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6075 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5539 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

139.36 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7974 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2039 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

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

25% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 1,089

225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12500 vs Ryzen 5 5600GT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600GT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. 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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.