Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

Core i5-12500 vs Ryzen 7 8845HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8845HS performs better 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 8845HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12500. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8845HS 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 8845HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.