AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 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

8158 points

63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

10256 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

7544 points

70% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

7441 points

73% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points

7534 points

62% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

209.04 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5 GHz

19% 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1120 KiB

191% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

142nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i9

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

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i9-12900H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900H beats the Ryzen 5 3600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H 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.

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.