Intel Core i5 12500H vs AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 12500H with 12-cores against the 2.9 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

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 electricity consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 4800H and 12500H
Advantages of Intel Core i5 12500H
  • Newer - released 2-years later
  • Has 10240 KB larger L3 cache size
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • 36% faster in a single-core Geekbench v5 test - 1622 vs 1197 points
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • 7% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 4.2 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10 nanometers

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1687
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
13192
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3543
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
21698
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1606
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
10214

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 12500H and AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

General

Vendor Intel AMD
Released January 4, 2022 January 6, 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake Zen 2 (Renoir)
Model number i5-12500H -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) Radeon Vega 7

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 8 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.5 GHz 2.9 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.5 GHz 4.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.8 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 12 8
Total Threads 16 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 25x 29x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication process 10 nm 7 nm
Socket BGA-1744 FP6
TDP 35-45 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP 95 W -
Peak temperature 100°C 105°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) Radeon Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1300 MHz 1600 MHz
Shading Units 640 448
TMUs 40 28
ROPs 20 7
Execution Units 80 -
TGP 15 W 10-45 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.41 TFLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory types DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267 DDR4-3200, LPDDR4X-4266
Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 68.27 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official site Intel Core i5 12500H official page AMD Ryzen 7 4800H official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 16

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H or Intel Core i5 12500H?
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