AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5087 points

6371 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6161 points

8680 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4760 points

5739 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points

5626 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.86 points

178.23 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10624 points

19282 points

81% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.5 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

1120 KiB

118% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

7.5 MiB

87% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

340th of 1,089

230th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i9-12900HK benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900HK 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900HK 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 i9-12900HK has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800U. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.