AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i5-12500T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700U beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12500T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Also, the Core i5-12500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12500T 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 i5-12500T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700U. The Core i5-12500T 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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.