AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i5-12450HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600H has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-12450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12450HX CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-12450HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12450HX.

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 Ryzen 5 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.