AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 12 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

5521 points
5581 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points
8519 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points
0.67% slightly better multitasking score
4741 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points
0.76% slightly better heavy workload score
4582 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points
163.57 points
2% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.55 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
18 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 1,089
286th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Core i5-12600H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600H is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8500G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600H. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 8500G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

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 8500G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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