AMD Ryzen 5 4600H vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4557 points
4814 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6332 points
7022 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3995 points
4142 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3865 points
3986 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

105.84 points
116.85 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5207 points
7554 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1385 points
2155 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
35 W
28% slightly lower TDP

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

385th of 1,089
365th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 4600H vs Core i5-12500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500T beats the Ryzen 5 4600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600H in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500T. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 4600H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4600H. The Core i5-12500T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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