AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-12500

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 i5-12500

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 172.23 significantly less expensive

$ 272.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

7166 points

64% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

9976 points

67% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

6301 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

6099 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

6075 points

75% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

170.78 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points

9112 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points

2182 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

9032 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

2320 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.6 GHz

17% 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

182nd 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i5-12500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. 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.

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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.