If you are looking for the best mid range CPU then your search is over. This processor comes with 10 cores out which 6 are performance cores and 4 efficient cores and a total of 16 threads.

The alder lake architecture has a new hybrid approach, The Golden Cove architecture aims to be something close to your traditional CPU core as we gamers would know it, built to excel at single-threaded performance and deliver high clock speeds. These are the P-Cores.

The Gracemont architecture is something Alder Lake borrows from Intel’s Atom lineup of low-power chips. These are built to be efficient, and you can fit more of them onto a chip without taking up too much space. These are the E-Cores.

Let’s now move to benchmarks!

Conclusion

As you can see i5 12600k easily beats AMD ryzen 5600x and is also cheaper. In our opinion it is best for gaming and you should definitely buy it OR buy the one which is cheaper as both of them are great for gaming and you won’t be disappointed from the performance of any of the offering form the side AMD and Intel