Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Core i9-10900X

Core i5-12600 vs Core i9-10900X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900X beats the Core i5-12600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12600. Indeed, the Core i9-10900X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900X 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 i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.