Intel Core i5-12500T vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Core i5-12500T vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500T is faster than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS.

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