AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

27% slightly better overall score

4814 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

18% slightly better gaming score

7022 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

4142 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

3986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

116.85 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7554 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

2155 points

11% slightly 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

3.9 GHz

95% significantly higher clock speed

2 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

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

365th 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 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-12500T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600G performs better than the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G 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 i5-12500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Core i5-12500T 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.