AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Core i5-12600

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i5-12600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Ryzen 9 5980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5980HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX and Core i5-12600 are identical in this regard. A Ryzen 9 5980HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.