Intel Core i5-12600 vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series 12 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

10155 points

41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10529 points

10880 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6169 points

9947 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5948 points

9902 points

66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9947 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

9570 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

178.59 points

290.59 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9645 points

13326 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2382 points

2592 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

64% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.1 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

24 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

178th of 1,089

85th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen AI 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12600 vs Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 beats the Core i5-12600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 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.

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.