AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i5-12600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12600K

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 104.47 significantly less expensive

$ 184.46

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points

9422 points

311% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points

12057 points

186% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points

8581 points

389% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points

8381 points

397% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2718 points

8019 points

195% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points

233.94 points

471% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3013 points

17491 points

480% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points

11486 points

310% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

2357 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points

11863 points

316% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

2478 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.9 GHz

44% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

130% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

800 KiB

108% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

20 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089

102nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Core i5-12600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K is faster than the Ryzen 3 1200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1200 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600K has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 1200 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1200. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 1200. Also, the Core i5-12600K has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 1200 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600K CPU because of its significantly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.