AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 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

38% slightly better overall score

4429 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

33% slightly better gaming score

6220 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

3928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

3833 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4486 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

114.47 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points

12150 points

15% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

85% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.7 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

960 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly 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

398th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

12th Generation Core i7

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

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i7-1260P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260P 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Core i7-1260P also has slightly more L3 cache.

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