AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-12400F

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

4180 points

7069 points

69% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

9794 points

73% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

6210 points

66% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

6009 points

66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

159.61 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points

12380 points

32% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

8804 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

2154 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

9125 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

2218 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.5 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% 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

422nd of 1,089

188th 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

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i5-12400F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400F performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12400F 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.