Intel Core i5-12600KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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

$ 169.09
$ 285.96 significantly less expensive
$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9948 points
10982 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12699 points
13108 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9060 points
10252 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8845 points
10031 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7997 points
10082 points
26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.61 points
325.43 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12301 points
18346 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2520 points
3336 points
32% 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
4.7 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.2 GHz
6% 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
25% slightly more L1 cache
640 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

92nd of 1,089
70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Core i5-12600KF vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is faster than the Core i5-12600KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600KF in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600KF. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D outputs less heat than Core i5-12600KF thanks to a slightly 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 i5-12600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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