Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5248 points

5291 points

0.82% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7843 points

10% slightly better gaming score

7096 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4484 points

4729 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4327 points

4589 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.50 points

129.09 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9134 points

10717 points

17% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.30 GHz

65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

318th of 1,089

311th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 5 6600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 6600H beats the Core i5-12450H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Indeed, the Core i5-12450H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 6600H. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 6600H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 6600H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 5 6600H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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