Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 3 7320U

Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 3 7320U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450H beats the Ryzen 3 7320U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 7320U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12450H has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 7320U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 7320U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 7320U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 7320U outputs less heat than Core i5-12450H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-12450H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-12450H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.