AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Core i5-12500H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800 is faster than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800 has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800 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 Core i5-12500H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12500H.

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 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.