Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

Core i5-12500 vs Ryzen 7 7840HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840HS is faster than the Core i5-12500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12500. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. The Ryzen 7 7840HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12500 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.