AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-12600

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 i5-12600

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 261.78 significantly less expensive

$ 328.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

7189 points

44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

10529 points

56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

6169 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

5948 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points

9947 points

114% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

178.59 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points

9785 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

2350 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

9645 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

2382 points

47% 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

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.8 GHz

14% 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

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

178th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-12600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12600 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.