Intel Core i5-12600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 328.78
$ 1.21 slightly less expensive
$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7189 points
2% slightly better overall score
6994 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10529 points
28% slightly better gaming score
8202 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6169 points
6575 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5948 points
6440 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9947 points
47% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6750 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

178.59 points
187.18 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9645 points
10106 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2382 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1922 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.58 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
96 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

178th of 1,089
194th 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

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i5-12600 vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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 Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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