AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Core i5-12500T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 4900HS beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12500T. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12500T. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T 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 Core i5-12500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 4900HS. The Core i5-12500T 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 4900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.