AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 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

6267 points

7213 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points

10096 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points

6311 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points

6106 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5664 points

5956 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points

160.34 points

6% slightly higher Blender 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

3.50 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

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

32 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 1,089

177th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core i5-12490F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12490F beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600 in all gaming tests too.

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 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-12490F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

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 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.