AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i7-12700H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700H performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 has more threads than the Core i7-12700H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-12700H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.