Intel Core i5-12500H vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

Core i5-12500H vs Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12500H. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.