Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

$ 184.46
$ 201.68 significantly less expensive
$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9418 points
10007 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12045 points
1% slightly better gaming score
11874 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8580 points
9347 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8380 points
9141 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8019 points
0.11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
8010 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.94 points
263.24 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

17491 points
18086 points
3% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11863 points
15051 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2478 points
2723 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
4.20 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W
120 W
25% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

800 KiB
56% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
96 MiB
380% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 1,118
92nd of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i5-12600K vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D performs better than the Core i5-12600K. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600K. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D outputs less heat than Core i5-12600K thanks to a slightly 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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