AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i5-12500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 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

4862 points

7166 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

9976 points

51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

6301 points

46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

6099 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4965 points

6075 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

170.78 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points

9112 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

2182 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points

9032 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points

2320 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th of 1,089

182nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i5-12500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600H in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12500 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.