AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i9-12900HX

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i9-12900HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900HX is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900 has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HX. The Ryzen 9 5900 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 9 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.