Intel Core i5-12450HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-12450HX vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Core i5-12450HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12450HX. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-12450HX. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12450HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i5-12450HX also has significantly 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 i5-12450HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.