AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i5-12600KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6264 points
9948 points
58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points
12699 points
65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points
9060 points
55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points
8845 points
54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6544 points
7997 points
22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points
226.61 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7263 points
12253 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1794 points
2468 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points
12301 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points
2520 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.7 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.9 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
233% significantly lower TDP
150 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
800 KiB
56% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089
92nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i5-12600KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600KF beats the Ryzen 9 5900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HX has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Also, the Core i5-12600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600KF CPU because of its 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 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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