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

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-12500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H 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 5800X. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800X. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a 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 i5-12500H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12500H.

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