AMD Ryzen 5 7520U vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Ryzen 5 7520U vs Core i5-12450HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12450HX has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7520U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7520U 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 7520U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12450HX 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 Core i5-12450HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. 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 7520U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.