AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i9-12900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-12900K

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 189.01 significantly less expensive

$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

13331 points

205% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

14234 points

138% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

13035 points

239% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

12983 points

248% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

11701 points

237% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

364.47 points

242% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points

15144 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points

2550 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

15365 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

2616 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5.2 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

270% significantly lower TDP

241 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

1280 KiB

122% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

30 MiB

87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 1,089

39th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2021 November

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 i9-12900K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900K. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900K CPU because of its 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.