AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i5-12600

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.99
$ 98.79 significantly less expensive
$ 328.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
17% slightly better overall score
7189 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
10529 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
36% slightly better multitasking score
6169 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score
5948 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
9947 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
178.59 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
9785 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points
2350 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9645 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
2382 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.8 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache
480 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache
18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
178th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i5-12600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900X beats the Core i5-12600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12600. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900X thanks to a 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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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