Intel Core i7-12700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Core i7-12700K vs Ryzen 5 5600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700K beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700K has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600. Also, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K 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 i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.