Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6875 points
8139 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9088 points
9987 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6235 points
7532 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6100 points
7360 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6198 points
7427 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.52 points
207.75 points
38% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.80 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.1 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
Identical
45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

5 MiB
8 MiB
60% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

201st of 1,089
144th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2023 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 7 8845HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8845HS performs better than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8845HS has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8845HS.

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.

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