Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500H beats the Ryzen 5 7430U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7430U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7430U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7430U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Also, the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7430U outputs less heat than Core i5-12500H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-12500H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7430U. The Core i5-12500H also has slightly 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 i5-12500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.