AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 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

6310 points

6% slightly better overall score

5938 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7757 points

8351 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5859 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

5219 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5747 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

5059 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

131.60 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

22% slightly lower TDP

55 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

7 MiB

75% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 1,118

269th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i5-12450HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900HX performs better than the Core i5-12450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-12450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 5900HX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12450HX CPU because of its 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 Core i5-12450HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12450HX.

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