AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core i3-12100F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-12100F performs better than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4600U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100F. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-12100F CPU because of its 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 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.