Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen 9 7940HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7940HS beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7940HS. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12500H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS.

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.