Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Core i5-12600K vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Core i5-12600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-12600K that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600K. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.