Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS

Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 5 8645HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8645HS is faster than the Core i5-12500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

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 8645HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8645HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 8645HS 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 8645HS.

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.