Core i9-12900HK vs Ryzen 5 8640HS benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HK beats the Ryzen 5 8640HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS 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 8640HS. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8640HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8640HS outputs less heat than Core i9-12900HK thanks to a 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 i9-12900HK has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. 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.
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