Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

5271 points
6036 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7846 points
8066 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4514 points
5457 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4358 points
5345 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.50 points
166.92 points
47% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3.30 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.1 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
28 W
60% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

330th of 1,118
261st of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7

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
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 7 8840HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8840HS beats the Core i5-12450H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12450H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 7 8840HS 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.

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