Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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
7857 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7843 points
10525 points
34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4484 points
6994 points
55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4327 points
6774 points
56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5258 points
6449 points
22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.50 points
197.05 points
73% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3.70 GHz
85% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
44% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

318th of 1,089
152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 5 7500F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7500F is faster than the Core i5-12450H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Indeed, the Core i5-12450H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500F. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 5 7500F 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.

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