AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i9-12900KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-12900KF

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 55.74 slightly less expensive

$ 279.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6413 points

12789 points

99% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

14030 points

60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

12383 points

118% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

12302 points

124% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

11666 points

105% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

361.08 points

132% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

14840 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

2507 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

14786 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

2584 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

270% significantly lower TDP

241 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1280 KiB

233% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

6% slightly more L3 cache

30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

44th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 November

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 5600X vs Core i9-12900KF specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900KF has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900KF CPU because of its significantly 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.