Intel Core i5-12450HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Core i5-12450HX vs Ryzen 5 7640HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7640HS performs better than the Core i5-12450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-12450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640HS has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12450HX thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12450HX.

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 i5-12450HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.