Intel Core i5-12600H vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-12600H vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600H. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12600H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-12600H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-12600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.