Intel Core i5-12500T vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i5-12500T vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12500T has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Core i5-12500T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-12500T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.