AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i7-12700H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i7-12700H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than the Core i7-12700H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H 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.

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.