Intel Core i9-12900HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Core i9-12900HK vs Ryzen 5 5600GT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HK beats the Ryzen 5 5600GT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600GT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600GT that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900HK CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5600GT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12900HK has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.