AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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

9859 points

43% significantly better overall score

6875 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

9% slightly better gaming score

9088 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

57% significantly better multitasking score

6235 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

6100 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6198 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

109% significantly higher Blender score

149.52 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points

40% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

14686 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

45 W

133% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

960 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

20% slightly more L2 cache

5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

255% significantly more L3 cache

18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089

201st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-12500H comparison

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

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5900X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12500H. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.