AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 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

6371 points
7% slightly better overall score
5938 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7734 points
8351 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5949 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
5219 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5841 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
5059 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.47 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
131.60 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
57% significantly 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

229th of 1,089
255th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core i5-12450HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 6900HS is faster than the Core i5-12450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-12450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 9 6900HS has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12450HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 6900HS 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 6900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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