AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i5-12600K

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i5-12600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600K beats the Ryzen 9 3900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900X has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-12600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X 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 9 3900X 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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.