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

5248 points

5821 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7843 points

8% slightly better gaming score

7228 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4484 points

5452 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4327 points

5384 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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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

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

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

Identical

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

266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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. 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.