Intel Core i5-12600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5625U

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7189 points

71% significantly better overall score

4185 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10529 points

76% significantly better gaming score

5956 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6169 points

69% significantly better multitasking score

3648 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5948 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

3528 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

178.59 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

101.12 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9645 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5479 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2382 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1585 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

178th of 1,089

421st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12600 vs Ryzen 5 5625U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Ryzen 5 5625U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5625U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Also, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5625U outputs less heat than Core i5-12600 thanks to a 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.