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

Ryzen 7 8845HS vs Core i5-12600H comparison

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8845HS. Indeed, the Core i5-12600H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8845HS. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12600H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8845HS.

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