AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Core i5-12500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500H beats the Ryzen 7 5800HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800HS in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800HS. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12500H CPU because of its slightly 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 5800HS. The Core i5-12500H also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.