AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i7-12700F

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 140.99
$ 103.98 significantly less expensive
$ 244.97

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
10416 points
69% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
12172 points
46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
9844 points
80% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
9714 points
84% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points
9522 points
72% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
270.50 points
84% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points
15291 points
44% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
11687 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
2341 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
11785 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
2387 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
960 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
77th 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
No

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i7-12700F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700F 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Indeed, the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700F. Despite this, the Core i7-12700F 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 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.

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