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

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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

7025 points

2% slightly better overall score

6875 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8549 points

9088 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6518 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

6235 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6374 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

6100 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6835 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6198 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.59 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

149.52 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15100 points

2% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

14686 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

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

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

192nd of 1,089

201st 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 i5-12500H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HX performs better than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 6900HX has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500H. 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 info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. The Core i5-12500H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.