Intel Core i5-12400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Core i5-12400 vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.