AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 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
6371 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points
8680 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points
5739 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points
5626 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5664 points
7480 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points
178.23 points
18% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1120 KiB
191% significantly 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
33% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 1,089
230th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core i9-12900HK benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HK 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-12900HK.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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