AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i5-12500

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 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

6264 points

7166 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points

9976 points

29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points

6301 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points

6099 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6544 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6075 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

170.78 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7263 points

9112 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1794 points

2182 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points

9032 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points

2320 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

480 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089

182nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i5-12500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.