AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Compare AMD 8 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

6371 points
6875 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7734 points
9088 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5949 points
6235 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5841 points
6100 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6852 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6198 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.47 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
149.52 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14403 points
14686 points
1% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
28% slightly lower TDP
45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache

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

229th of 1,089
201st 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 February

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
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core i5-12500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HS beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12500H CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. The Core i5-12500H also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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