AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
5248 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
7843 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
4484 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
4327 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points
5258 points
13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
113.50 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.4 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
318th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-12450H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12450H performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Core i5-12450H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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