Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500H is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

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.