AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-12600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 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

9422 points

125% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

12057 points

113% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

8581 points

130% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

8381 points

132% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

233.94 points

132% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points

17491 points

87% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

11486 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

2357 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

11863 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

2478 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.9 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

900% significantly lower TDP

150 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

800 KiB

108% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

20 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089

102nd 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

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i5-12600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600K has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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