AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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

5903 points
5% slightly better overall score
5581 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7480 points
8519 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5373 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
4741 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5224 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
4582 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

138.57 points
163.57 points
18% slightly higher Blender score

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 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
28% slightly lower TDP
45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
18 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 1,089
286th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 March
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Core i5-12600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 4900HS beats the Core i5-12600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 4900HS that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 4900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 4900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600H CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-12600H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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