AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-12500

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 i5-12500

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 172.23 significantly less expensive

$ 272.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

7166 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

9976 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

6301 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

6099 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

6075 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

170.78 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points

9112 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points

2182 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

9032 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

2320 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

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

336th of 1,089

182nd 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 3600X vs Core i5-12500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the Ryzen 5 3600X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i5-12500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600X 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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.