Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450H is faster than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U 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 5 7520U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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.