AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs Intel Core i5-12600K

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Core i5-12600K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600K beats the Ryzen 7 3800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3800X has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600K. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3800X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600K CPU because of its much 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 7 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.