intel core i5 12500h vs amd ryzen 5 5500u
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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-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
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
- Consumes up to 44% less energy than the Intel Core i5 12500H – 25 vs 45 Watt
Advantages of Intel Core i5 12500H
- Newer released 1 years later
- Has 6 more physical cores
- Has 10 MB larger L3 cache size
- 11% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 4 GHz)
- Newer PCI Express version – 4
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Core i5 12500H | |
| Vendor | AMD | Intel |
| Released | January 7 2021 | January 4 2022 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Lucienne U | Alder Lake-H |
| Socket | FP6 | FCBGA1744 |
| Integrated GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 | Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible |
Performance
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Core i5 12500H | |
| Cores | 6 | 12 |
| Threads | 12 | 16 |
| Base Frequency | 2.1 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4 GHz | 4.5 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 80K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 1.25 MB (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 8 MB (shared) | 18 MB (shared) |
Power
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Core i5 12500H | |
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | Intel 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 W | 45 W |
| Max. temperature | 105°C | 100°C |
Memory support
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Core i5 12500H | |
| Memory types | DDR4-4266 | DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267 |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 64 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | - |
| ECC Support | No | No |
iGPU
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Core i5 12500H | |
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 | Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible |
| GPU Base Clock | 300 MHz | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | MHz | 1.3 MHz |
| Shading Units | 448 | 640 |
| TMUs | 28 | 40 |
| ROPs | 7 | 20 |
| Execution Units | 80 | |
| TGP | 0 W | 15 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Core i5 12500H | |
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page | Intel Core i5 12500H official page |
| PCI Express Version | 3 | 4 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 28 |