AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i9-12900KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 140.99
$ 139.00 significantly less expensive
$ 279.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
12789 points
108% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
14030 points
69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
12383 points
127% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
12302 points
133% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points
11666 points
111% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
361.08 points
146% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
14840 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
2507 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
14786 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
2584 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.2 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
270% significantly lower TDP
241 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1280 KiB
233% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
30 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
44th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i9-12900KF specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF 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 i9-12900KF has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G that 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900KF CPU because of its 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.

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