Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Core i5-12600K vs Ryzen 9 8945H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8945H. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600K.

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