AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4006 points
5938 points
48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6204 points
8351 points
34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3328 points
5219 points
56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3195 points
5059 points
58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

79.73 points
131.60 points
65% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.20 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.4 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
22% slightly lower TDP
55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
7 MiB
250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

435th of 1,089
255th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7000 Series
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 7235HS vs Core i5-12450HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7235HS in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Indeed, the Core i5-12450HX has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7235HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7235HS 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 7235HS 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 info from our database shows that the Core i5-12450HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. The Core i5-12450HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7235HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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