Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Price

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$ 272.22

$ 222.50

$ 49.72 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

7604 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

10588 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

6642 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

6422 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6075 points

6178 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

173.75 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

10810 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

2486 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

5 GHz

8% 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

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

160th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 8000 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

DDR5

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 8600G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8600G beats the Core i5-12500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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.

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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.