AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i5-12400

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 i5-12400

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 56.00 significantly less expensive

$ 153.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

7038 points

63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

9694 points

65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

6210 points

62% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

6013 points

62% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3469 points

5938 points

71% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

164.62 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

8911 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

2130 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

8875 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

2207 points

94% 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

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.4 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

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

409th of 1,089

190th 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 1600X vs Core i5-12400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Ryzen 5 1600X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. The Core i5-12400 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.