AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i5-12600

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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

$ 287.24
$ 41.54 slightly less expensive
$ 328.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
55% significantly better overall score
7189 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
10529 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
88% significantly better multitasking score
6169 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
98% significantly better heavy workload score
5948 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
9947 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
127% significantly higher Blender score
178.59 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
9785 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
2350 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9645 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2382 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
166% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 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

1024 KiB
113% 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

66th of 1,089
178th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i5-12600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5950X performs better than the Core i5-12600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-12600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X thanks to a 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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