Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U 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 PRO 7840U has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U.

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.