AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 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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$ 129.99

$ 198.79 significantly less expensive

$ 328.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

7189 points

59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

10529 points

69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

6169 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

5948 points

54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points

9947 points

103% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

178.59 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

9785 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

2350 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

9645 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

2382 points

37% slightly 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

3.8 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.8 GHz

6% 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

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

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 i5-12600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Ryzen 5 3600XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600XT in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600 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.