Intel Core i7-12850HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Core i7-12850HX vs Ryzen 9 5900XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12850HX beats the Ryzen 9 5900XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900XT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 9 5900XT has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-12850HX CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12850HX.

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 i7-12850HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.