Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

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Price

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$ 184.46
$ 59.40
$ 125.06 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9422 points
142% significantly better overall score
3892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12057 points
90% significantly better gaming score
6333 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8581 points
171% significantly better multitasking score
3162 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8381 points
176% significantly better heavy workload score
3035 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.94 points
190% significantly higher Blender score
80.44 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11863 points
143% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4865 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2478 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1512 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
150% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
3.80 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W
65 W
130% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

800 KiB
212% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
400% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

102nd of 1,102
454th of 1,102

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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