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Intel Core i5 12450H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

46 out of 100
Intel Core i5 12450H
VS
61 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
Intel Core i5 12450H
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 2 GHz Intel Core i5 12450H against the 3.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 8845HS and 12450H
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.1 vs 0.9 TFLOPS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers
  • Newer - released 2 years later
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 16% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.4 GHz)
  • 15% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2580 vs 2246 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i5 12450H
vs
Ryzen 7 8845HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 570
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 4125
Cinebench Scores (#175th place)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i5 12450H
8489
Ryzen 7 8845HS +53%
13018
File compression 719.1 MB/sec 1120 MB/sec
Clang compilation 57.2 Klines/sec 96.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 201.6 pages/sec 278.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 238.8 Mpixels/sec 374.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 230.7 pages/sec 261.9 pages/sec
Background blur 39.5 images/sec 59.9 images/sec
Photo processing 74.2 images/sec 110.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.4 Mpixels/sec 22.3 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 757 & 158 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core i5 12450H
15893
Ryzen 7 8845HS +78%
28291
Integer math 54.1 GOps/sec 97 GOps/sec
Floating point math 40 GOps/sec 58.8 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 44M Primes/sec 86M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 20.5M Strings/sec 41.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 10.6 GBytes/sec 20.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 190.5 MBytes/sec 341.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 853 Frames/sec 1339 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 11.7B Matrices/sec 25.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 7165 & 3870 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core i5 12450H
115.78
Ryzen 7 8845HS +77%
205.32

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 13.1 PPW 17.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 188.6 PPW 241.1 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 353.2 PPW 523.9 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.57 PPW 3.8 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i5 12450H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-16 -> dmytrokobzarGeekbench 6 CPU2342 / 9865
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-03 (Burnt_T0ast)Geekbench 6 CPU2342 / 8962
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-23 (atlas)Geekbench 6 CPU2181 / 7757
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-08 (Raj)Cinebench 202491 / 588
πŸ“˜ 2024-01-30 (black lee)Cinebench 202491 / 601
Add View all (5)
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-15 (korn87)Cinebench 2026570 / 4125
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-07 (korn87)Geekbench 6 CPU2718 / 13855
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-07 (korn87)Cinebench 2026570 / 4125
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-09 (MaidElle)Geekbench 6 CPU2514 / 12971
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 CPU2331 / 10135
Add View all (18)

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 12450H and AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 4, 2022 December 6, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Model number i5-12450H -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics (48EU) Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
Successor - Intel Core 5 210H - AMD Ryzen 7 260
Intel CPU rating (#182nd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#60th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 8 16
Base Frequency (P) 2 GHz 3.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.4 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.5 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 8
Total Threads 12 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 20x 38x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 12MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-45 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 95 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics (48EU) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 400 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1200 MHz 2700 MHz
Shading Units 384 768
TMUs 24 48
ROPs 12 32
Execution Units 48 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core i5 12450H
0.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 8845HS +356%
4.1 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 780M compared to UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-5200
- LPDDR4x-4267		 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i5 12450H official page AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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Comments

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