AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-12600

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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Intel Core i5-12600

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 328.78

$ 516.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

7189 points

64% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

10529 points

66% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

6169 points

65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

5948 points

66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3688 points

9947 points

169% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

178.59 points

97% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

9785 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

2350 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

9645 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

2382 points

83% significantly 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

2.1 GHz

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.8 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

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

8 MiB

18 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

178th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-12600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600 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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.