amd ryzen 9 6980hs vs intel core i5 12500h

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS (Laptop) 8-cores against Intel Core i5 12500H (Laptop) 12-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS and Intel Core i5 12500H
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS
  • 10% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)
  • More modern manufacturing process – 6 versus 7
Advantages of Intel Core i5 12500H
  • Newer released 2022 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
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Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 6980hs and core i5 12500h

General

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Intel Core i5 12500H
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 4 2022 January 4 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Rembrandt H Alder Lake-H
Socket FP7 FCBGA1744
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon 680M Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Intel Core i5 12500H
Cores 8 12
Threads 16 16
Base Frequency 3.3 GHz 2.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 5 GHz 4.5 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1.25 MB (per core)
L3 Cache 16 MB (shared) 18 MB (shared)

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Intel Core i5 12500H
Fabrication process 6 nm Intel 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 W 45 W
Max. temperature 95°C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Intel Core i5 12500H
Memory types DDR5-4800 DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267
Memory Size GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Intel Core i5 12500H
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon 680M Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible
GPU Base Clock 2000 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.3 MHz
Shading Units 768 640
TMUs 48 40
ROPs 32 20
Execution Units 80
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
1.41 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Intel Core i5 12500H
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS official page Intel Core i5 12500H official page
PCI Express Version 4 4
PCI Express Lanes 28

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i5 12500H or AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS?