Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD Ryzen AI 7 350

Core i5-12500 vs Ryzen AI 7 350 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen AI 7 350 beats the Core i5-12500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen AI 7 350 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12500. Indeed, the Ryzen AI 7 350 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 AI 7 350 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.

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