
Its idle power is also slightly better than the AMD CPU.Core i7-2600K, Core i5-2500K, Core i5-2400, And Core i3-2100 Reviewed The Core i5, however, finishes the work and begins to idle well before the AMD CPU can. As you can see, the Core i5 uses about 220 watts while running the encode while the Ryzen 5 5600X uses about 165 watts. That can lead to results like what you see below in Handbrake 1.42, where we recorded total system power consumption (how you pay your electricity) on both CPUs with nearly the same components inside. While the Core i9-12900K has an equal number of physical cores to the Ryzen 9 5950X, the Core i5-12600K actually has more physical cores. With the Core i5-12600K and Ryzen 5 5600X, that math changes. By monitoring power consumption in most lighter applications like Photoshop, Chrome, Office and even Premiere in our 12th-gen Core i9 review, we found it’s actually far closer between the Ryzen and Core CPUs, with Intel’s flagship Core i9-12900K using less power than the Ryzen 9 5950X sometimes. And it is-but only under an all-core load. Even before Alder Lake launched, many people already believed that Intel’s 12th-gen chips would be a power hog. We’ll close out with a discussion about power consumption.
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So yes, if you don’t want Bill Lumberg to tell you come in on Saturday (and Sunday mmm’kay?) you probably want your next Office PC to run a 12th gen chip. Digging into the scores, that translates to a 16 percent lead in Word, 20 percent lead in Excel, 3.4 percent in PowerPoint and somehow a 10 percent advantage in Outlook. Overall, the Core i5-12600K holds a respectable 13 percent lead over Ryzen 5 5600X.

They’re not all simultaneously being “typed on” since that’s unrealistic, but they’re all launched and pictures, text and other bits are copied and pasted between them-just like you would in a real-life corporate world environment. While the old test ran each one after another, Procyon 2.0 now runs all of the apps at the same time. To look at Office performance, we use UL’s Procyon 2.0 Office Productivity test, which tasks Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook with a real-world, reality-based (and mind-numbingly boring) task of editing multiple documents rich with photos, art, and calculations. It’s basically a tie while applying filter effects.Īll of the video editing, photo editing and 3D rendering is sexy and fun, but you know what brings home the bacon for most people? Microsoft Office. Pugetbench actually gives the edge to the Ryzen 5 5600X in the export score by a commanding 21 percent. AMD’s Ryzen CPUs don’t ship with integrated graphics. That lead seems to come largely from the integrated graphics cores in the Intel CPU. Much of the advantage-which is indeed real-comes from the live playback score, where the 12th-gen Core i5 has a 92 percent advantage over the Ryzen 5. The overall score for PugetBench gives a downright shocking 64 percent performance lead to the Core i5-12600K over the Ryzen 5 5600X-but there’s more nuance to it.


Premiere Pro, unlike Photoshop, can use far more CPU cores. To gauge performance there, we use Pugetbench for Premiere Pro, which measures performance in the popular video editor. Other than photo editing, video editing can be one of the most demanding tasks on a PC. So if your idea of a good time is compressing or decompressing files with 7-Zip, reach for Ryzen. We see the 12th-gen Core i5 is actually 13 percent slower in single-threaded compression and 10 percent slower in single-threaded decompression. We suspect 7-Zip either is sensitive to the latency of DDR5 or simply isn’t optimized for Alder Lake though because the single-threaded performance provides the first glimpse of a task where Ryzen is faster. If you did, however, the winner would be the Core i5-12600K, which pulls in a 7 percent advantage in decompression performance and 5 percent in compression performance over the Ryzen 5 5600X.

7-Zip is free, wonderful, and we recommend you check it out, but its built in benchmark is mostly academic since we’ve never seen it use all 16 threads of a CPU to compress or decompress a file. Moving on to the exhilarating world of compressing and decompressing your files, we use 7-Zip’s built-in benchmark to gauge that performance.
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