AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Intel Core i5-12600

Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Core i5-12600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600 is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12600. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 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 Threadripper 1920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.