AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i3-12100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-12100

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 30.60 significantly less expensive

$ 128.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

5115 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

8339 points

42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

4166 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

4001 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3469 points

4034 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

111.80 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

6822 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

2105 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

6766 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

2147 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

60 W

58% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

79% significantly more L1 cache

320 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

337th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i3

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 1600X vs Core i3-12100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100 is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-12100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100. The Core i3-12100 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.