Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD 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
5% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7843 points
20% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4484 points
4496 points
0.27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4327 points
4354 points
0.62% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.50 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
87.35 points

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
2.20 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

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
49% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

318th of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450H is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition 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 Microsoft Surface Edition that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12450H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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