AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Core i5-12600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8840HS beats the Core i5-12600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8840HS has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 8840HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600H 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 Ryzen 7 8840HS has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.