AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i5-12600T

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i5-12600T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600T is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800U has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12600T that 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 5800U. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12600T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. The Core i5-12600T also has slightly 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.