AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i5-12500H. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000 Intel Core i 12000H
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Core i5
• Generation
  4 12
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 9 3900 Intel Core i5-11500H
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  - 4x Golden Cove
• B-Core
  - 8x Gracemont
• Base Frequency
  3.5 GHz 2.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  12 12
• CPU Threads
  24 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.7 GHz 4.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  4.3 GHz 3.2 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12.1
• Execution units
  - 80
• Generation
  - 13
• GPU Frequency
  - 400 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1300 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 4
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 64 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2022
• Shader
  - 640
• Technology
  - 10 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-12500H and AMD Ryzen 9 5900. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200
• PCIe lanes
  20 -
• PCIe version
  4.0 -
• PCIe
  - 4.0 x 28

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and Intel Core i5-12500H Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 45 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 115 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and Intel Core i5-12500H, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Vermeer (Zen 3) Alder Lake H
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
• L2-Cache
  6 MB 9 MB
• L3-Cache
  64 MB 18 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q1/2022
• Socket
  AM4 BGA 1744
• Technology
  7 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d