AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 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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$ 129.99

$ 142.23 significantly less expensive

$ 272.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

7166 points

59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

9976 points

60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

6301 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

6099 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points

6075 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

170.78 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

9112 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

2182 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

9032 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

2320 points

34% 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

4.5 GHz

4.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

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

389th 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

2020 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 3600XT vs Core i5-12500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600XT 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. The Core i5-12500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600XT thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.