Intel Core i5-12600 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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$ 328.78

$ 222.50

$ 106.28 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7189 points

7604 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10529 points

10588 points

0.56% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6169 points

6642 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5948 points

6422 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9947 points

61% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6178 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

178.59 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

173.75 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9645 points

10810 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2382 points

2486 points

4% slightly 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

3.3 GHz

4.35 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5 GHz

4% 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

178th 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 i5-12600 vs Ryzen 5 8600G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8600G is faster than the Core i5-12600. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G 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 i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.