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

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 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

7424 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

9222 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

6907 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

6820 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points

7238 points

31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

194.62 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points

19330 points

83% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

69% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 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

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1120 KiB

191% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

169th 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 i7-12700H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700H is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600G. 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 i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H 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.

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.