AMD Ryzen 7 4800U vs Intel Core i5-12600T

Ryzen 7 4800U vs Core i5-12600T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800U beats the Core i5-12600T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4800U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12600T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600T. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12600T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U. The Core i5-12600T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7 4800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.