Yes, PC gaming is an immensely important factor in many computer purchases, but the role the CPU plays in it-although vital-takes a backseat to the GPU. 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. That doesn’t surprise us, as Lightoom Classic tends to use more CPU cores than Photoshop. In the batch processing task that leans more on Lightroom Classic performance, the 12th-gen Core i5 opens its lead to 7 percent. Looking at the sub scores, we basically see a tie within the margin of error for the Image Retouch test, which is mostly Photoshop editing performance. Procyon 2.0’s overall score sees both chips actually close up a little, but the Core i5-12600K still edges the Ryzen 5 5600X by three percent. The benchmark scripts Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic with several photo tasks. Geekbench is fun to shriek at people about on Twitter, but for something closer to reality we like to look at how fast the CPUs run actual applications, so first up is Procyon 2.0’s Photo Editing benchmark. 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. To see the image above (or any benchmark charts in this article) at full resolution, right-click on them and select “open image in new tab.”
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