AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-12400F

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

$ 269.00
$ 179.99
$ 89.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
39% slightly better overall score
7069 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
1% slightly better gaming score
9794 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
58% significantly better multitasking score
6210 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
63% significantly better heavy workload score
6009 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points
71% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5946 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
159.61 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points
66% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
12380 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11764 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8804 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2141 points
2154 points
0.61% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9125 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points
2218 points
0.82% 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

3.7 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

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

94th of 1,089
188th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
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

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-12400F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i5-12400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400F 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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