AMD Ryzen 5 8600G vs Intel Core i5-12600HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7451 points
7826 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10570 points
11% slightly better gaming score
9483 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6451 points
7371 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6231 points
7268 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

173.75 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
164.70 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.35 GHz
73% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
9 MiB
49% significantly more L2 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

171st of 1,098
157th of 1,098

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

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