AMD Ryzen 5 2600 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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$ 99.99

$ 54.00 significantly less expensive

$ 153.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

7038 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

9694 points

62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

6210 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

6013 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

5938 points

71% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

164.62 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points

8911 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points

2130 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

8875 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

2207 points

89% 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

3.4 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.4 GHz

12% 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

404th 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

2018 April

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 2600 vs Core i5-12400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Ryzen 5 2600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 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 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.