intel core i5 12500h vs amd ryzen 9 5900h

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We compared two CPUs Intel Core i5 12500H (Laptop) 12-cores against AMD Ryzen 9 5900H (Laptop) 8-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 Intel Core i5 12500H and AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Advantages of Intel Core i5 12500H
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.6 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1699
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
13021
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
21632
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
10260

Specifications

Full technical specification of core i5 12500h and ryzen 9 5900h

General

Intel Core i5 12500H AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Vendor Intel AMD
Released January 4 2022 January 7 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake-H Cezanne U
Socket FCBGA1744 FP6
Integrated GPU Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000)

Performance

Intel Core i5 12500H AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Cores 12 8
Threads 16 16
Base Frequency 2.5 GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.5 GHz 4.6 GHz
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 512 KB
L2 Cache 1.25 MB (per core) 4 MB
L3 Cache 18 MB (shared) 16 MB

Power

Intel Core i5 12500H AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Fabrication process Intel 7 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 W 45 W
Max. temperature 100°C °C

Memory support

Intel Core i5 12500H AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Memory types DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267
Memory Size 64 GB GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Intel Core i5 12500H AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Integrated Graphics Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000)
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1.3 MHz MHz
Shading Units 640 512
TMUs 40 32
ROPs 20 8
Execution Units 80
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.41 TFLOPS
TFLOPS

Misc

Intel Core i5 12500H AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Official site Intel Core i5 12500H official page AMD Ryzen 9 5900H official page
PCI Express Version 4
PCI Express Lanes 28

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 9 5900H or Intel Core i5 12500H?