AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U vs Intel Core i9-12900KS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 699.77
$ 379.99
$ 319.78 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4132 points
14046 points
239% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5983 points
14925 points
149% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3549 points
13755 points
287% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3422 points
13690 points
300% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.80 points
372.23 points
314% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4683 points
16406 points
250% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1316 points
2655 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4568 points
16013 points
250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1316 points
2713 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.4 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.5 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
900% significantly lower TDP
150 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1280 KiB
233% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
30 MiB
274% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

425th of 1,089
30th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile
12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U vs Core i9-12900KS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900KS beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900KS has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900KS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. Also, the Core i9-12900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900KS CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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