Core i5-12600K vs Ryzen 9 7940HS specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600K beats the Ryzen 9 7940HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HS in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600K. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7940HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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 i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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