Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 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

6328 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7843 points

1% slightly better gaming score

7752 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4484 points

5895 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4327 points

5789 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5258 points

6531 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.50 points

169.56 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9134 points

14960 points

63% significantly higher Cinebench R23 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

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

234th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen Z1

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 Z1 Extreme benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme beats the Core i5-12450H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.