Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 5 7530U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500H performs better than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7530U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7530U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7530U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7530U 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 7530U. 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.