AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-12400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12400F

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 121.59 significantly less expensive

$ 179.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

7069 points

57% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

9794 points

62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

6210 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

6009 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points

5946 points

86% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

159.61 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6468 points

12380 points

91% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

8804 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

2154 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

9125 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

2218 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

480 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

188th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-12400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.