Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-12600K benchmarks
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900X performs better than the Core i5-12600K. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600K. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 9 5900X and Core i5-12600K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900X 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.
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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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