Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 5 8640HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500H is faster than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8640HS 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 8640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8640HS 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 Ryzen 5 8640HS has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS.

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