AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i9-12900KS

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i9-12900KS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900KS beats the Ryzen 5 2600X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600X in all gaming tests too.

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