Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5625U

Core i5-12600K vs Ryzen 5 5625U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K is faster than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5625U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5625U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5625U. Also, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5625U outputs less heat than Core i5-12600K 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 i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.