AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-12450H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450H beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12450H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12450H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.