AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i7-12700

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i7-12700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Ryzen 5 5600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Both the Ryzen 5 5600H and Core i7-12700 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700 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 Ryzen 5 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.