Intel Core i5-12400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Core i5-12400 vs Ryzen 9 6900HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HS beats the Core i5-12400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12400. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.