AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 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

6140 points
3% slightly better overall score
5938 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
8351 points
0.70% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
5219 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
5059 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
131.60 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
62% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
Identical
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
7 MiB
133% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
255th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2022 May

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 5600G vs Core i5-12450HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450HX beats the Ryzen 5 5600G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-12450HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12450HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600G has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12450HX.

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

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