AMD Ryzen 5 7500F vs Intel Core i5-12600HX

Ryzen 5 7500F vs Core i5-12600HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600HX has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7500F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 7500F thanks to a 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 i5-12600HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500F has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12600HX.

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 7500F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.