AMD Ryzen 7 8845H vs Intel Core i5-12600HX

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 12 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

8128 points
2% slightly better overall score
7962 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9840 points
9881 points
0.42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7607 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
7422 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7454 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
7289 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.16 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
164.70 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
9 MiB
12% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
18 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,105
157th of 1,105

Family

The product line

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12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Ryzen 7 8845H vs Core i5-12600HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8845H beats the Core i5-12600HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8845H. Indeed, the Core i5-12600HX has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8845H. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8845H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12600HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8845H. The Core i5-12600HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 8845H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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