AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i5-12500H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3950X is faster than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12500H. The Ryzen 9 3950X also has significantly 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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.