AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series 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

6140 points

7213 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

10096 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

6311 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

6106 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points

5956 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

160.34 points

9% 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

3.9 GHz

30% 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

16 MiB

20 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

177th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-12490F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12490F performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 5600G. The Core i5-12490F also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.