Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 6 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

$ 184.46
$ 314.54 significantly less expensive
$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9422 points
76% significantly better overall score
5333 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12057 points
62% significantly better gaming score
7406 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8581 points
84% significantly better multitasking score
4663 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8381 points
85% significantly better heavy workload score
4507 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8019 points
17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6809 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.94 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
127.97 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11486 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6221 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2357 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1526 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11863 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6107 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2478 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1564 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
3.70 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 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
108% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
150% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

102nd of 1,089
308th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i5-12600K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 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 PRO 4650G. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600K. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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