AMD Athlon Gold 20 vs Intel Core i5 12600KF
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Oct 2025
Oct 2021
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Desktop
Core Architecture
Mendocino
Alder Lake
Integrated Graphics
Radeon 610M
No
Generation
Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))
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Instruction Set
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x86-64
Processor Number
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i5-12600KF
Package
Manufacturing Process
6 nm
10 nm
Socket
AMD Socket FT6
LGA-1700
Power Consumption
15 W
125 W
Peak Operating Temperature
95°C
100°C
Foundry
TSMC
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Die Size
100 mm²
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Package
FT6
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Max Turbo Power Consumption
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150 W
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.4 GHz
3.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.7 GHz
4.9 GHz
Total Core Count
2
10
Total Thread Count
4
16
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
24.0
37x
L1 Cache
64 KB per core
80 K per core
L2 Cache
512 KB per core
9728 K shared
L3 Cache
4 MB shared
20 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Yes
SMP
1
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Performance Cores
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6
Performance Core Threads
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12
Efficiency Cores
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4
Efficiency Core Threads
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4
Efficiency Core Base Frequency
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2.8 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency
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3.6 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
LPDDR5-5500
DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Max Memory Channels
2
2
ECC Memory Support
No
No
Max Memory Size
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128 GB
Max Memory Bandwidth
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76.8 GB/s
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
3
5.0
PCIe Lanes
4
20
Benchmark
Geekbench 6
888
2,597
Geekbench 6
1,822
12,937
Cinebench R23
—
1,908
Cinebench R23
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17,648
Geekbench 5
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1,839
Geekbench 5
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11,626
Cinebench 2024
—
105
Cinebench 2024
—
909
Blender
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273
Passmark CPU
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3,934
Passmark CPU
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27,408
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.