Intel Core i5-12600KF vs AMD A12-9800

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Core i5-12600KF CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD A12-9800
Intel Core i5-12600KF AMD A12-9800

CPU comparison

Intel Core i5-12600KF or AMD A12-9800 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Core i5-12600KF has 10 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.90 GHz. Up to 128 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-12600KF was released in Q4/2021.

The AMD A12-9800 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD A12-9800 was released in Q3/2017.
Intel Core i5 (328) Family AMD A (112)
Intel Core i 12000 (34) CPU group AMD A12-9800 (1)
12 Generation 7
Alder Lake S Architecture Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Desktop / Server Segment Desktop / Server
Intel Core i5-11600KF Predecessor --
Intel Core i5-13600KF Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-12600KF has 10 CPU cores and can calculate 16 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-12600KF is 3.70 GHz (4.90 GHz) while the AMD A12-9800 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD A12-9800 is at 3.80 GHz (4.20 GHz).

Intel Core i5-12600KF Characteristic AMD A12-9800
10 Cores 4
16 Threads 4
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading No
Yes Overclocking ? No
3.70 GHz (4.90 GHz)
6x Golden Cove
A-Core 3.80 GHz (4.20 GHz)
4x Excavator
2.80 GHz (3.60 GHz)
4x Gracemont
B-Core --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Core i5-12600KF Characteristic AMD A12-9800
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i5-12600KF or AMD A12-9800 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

no iGPU GPU AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency 1.11 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) --
-- GPU Generation 6
Technology 28 nm
Max. displays 2
-- Compute units 8
-- Shader 512
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
-- DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

no iGPU GPU AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
No Codec h264 Decode
No Codec VP9 No
No Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i5-12600KF can use up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. The AMD A12-9800 supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 38.4 GB/s.

Intel Core i5-12600KF Characteristic AMD A12-9800
DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200 Memory DDR4-2400
128 GB Max. Memory 64 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
76.8 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 38.4 GB/s
No ECC No
9.50 MB L2 Cache 2.00 MB
20.00 MB L3 Cache --
5.0 PCIe version 3.0
20 PCIe lanes 8
78.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Core i5-12600KF is 125 W, while the AMD A12-9800 has a TDP of 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Core i5-12600KF Characteristic AMD A12-9800
125 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 65 W
150 W TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
100 °C Tjunction max. 90 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-12600KF is manufactured in 10 nm and has 29.50 MB cache. The AMD A12-9800 is manufactured in 28 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.

Intel Core i5-12600KF Characteristic AMD A12-9800
10 nm Technology 28 nm
Monolithic Chip design Unknown
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+ ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
LGA 1700 Socket AM4 (PGA 1331)
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization AMD-V
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q4/2021 Release date Q3/2017
264 $ Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1918 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
655 (34%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
17660 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1979 (11%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1854 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
607 (33%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
11912 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1827 (15%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
741 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
254 (34%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
6702 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
762 (11%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
274 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
100 (36%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
2596 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
326 (13%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
105 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
909 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
2472 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
11991 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) @ 1.11 GHz
1143 (100%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
249 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
27830 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
766 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 3.70 GHz
5589 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)

Efficiency of the processor under full load in the Cinebench R23 (multi-core) benchmark. The benchmark result is divided by the average energy required (CPU package power in watts). The higher the value, the more efficient the CPU is under full load.
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
17,660 CB R23 MC @ 115 W
154 (100%)
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
3.80 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Core i5-12600KF AMD A12-9800
Unknown Unknown

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