Intel Core i9-12900HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Core i9-12900HK vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900HK performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8500G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HK. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i9-12900HK CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 8500G CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900HK has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.