Intel Core i9-12900H vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Core i9-12900H vs Ryzen 7 5700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700 is faster than the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5700 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.