Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD 8 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

8985 points

71% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7843 points

10717 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4484 points

8377 points

86% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4327 points

8167 points

88% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5258 points

7434 points

41% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.50 points

172.18 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.80 GHz

90% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% 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

111th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 7 7840H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840H 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 7840H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 7 7840H 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.