AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i3-12100F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600H beats the Core i3-12100F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-12100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 5600H and Core i3-12100F have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-12100F CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.