Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Core i5-12500 vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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.