Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 5 8500G benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450H is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8500G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12450H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12450H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 8500G CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 5 8500G also has slightly 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.