AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i3-12100

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i3-12100 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Core i3-12100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-12100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a significantly 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.