AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i5-12600T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 6 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

5232 points

5246 points

0.27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

8031 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

4444 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

4298 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

7345 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

2043 points

29% 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

3.7 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

7.5 MiB

150% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

18 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

319th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series 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 4600G vs Core i5-12600T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Core i5-12600T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600T. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12600T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4600G. The Core i5-12600T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.