AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 8 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

6416 points

8% slightly better overall score

5938 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8665 points

3% slightly better gaming score

8351 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5694 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

5219 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5516 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

5059 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.36 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

131.60 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.59 GHz

91% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

55 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

7 MiB

133% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

225th of 1,089

255th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

2022 May

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 5600GT vs Core i5-12450HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12450HX performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600GT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600GT that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12450HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12450HX.

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