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

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 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

7025 points

33% slightly better overall score

5248 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8549 points

9% slightly better gaming score

7843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6518 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

4484 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6374 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

4327 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6835 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5258 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.59 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

113.50 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15100 points

65% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

9134 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

65% significantly higher clock speed

2 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

45 W

Identical

45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

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

192nd of 1,089

318th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Core i5-12450H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HX performs better than the Core i5-12450H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 6900HX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 Ryzen 9 6900HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 9 6900HX also has slightly 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 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.