AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX vs Intel Core i5-12400F

Differences
Specifications Benchmarks Testimonials

Differences

Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Report a bug

Place in the overall ranking

(based on several benchmarks)

17 place
More number of cores

10 more cores

16 6
Higher turbo clock speed

Around 23% higher specified turbo frequency

5.4 GHz 4.40 GHz
Lower stated TDP / base power

Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

55 W 65 W

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

19 place
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

16 place
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

18 place
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

13 place
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

5 place
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

6 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

11 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

26 place
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

663 place
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

9 place
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

9 place
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

6 place
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

8 place

Reasons to consider
Intel Core i5-12400F

Report a bug

Place in the overall ranking

(based on several benchmarks)

88 place

Positions in all rankings

Common positions Intel Core i5-12400F CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

53 place
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

105 place
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

28 place
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

109 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

99 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

143 place

Specifications

Technical data

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Intel Core i5-12400F

CPU family and group

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

CPU group

AMD Ryzen 7045 Intel Core i 12000
Family

Ryzen Intel Core i5
Form Factor

Laptops / Desktops -
Generation

6 12
Predecessor

- Intel Core i5-11400F
Segment

Mobile Desktop / Server
Series

Ryzen 7000 Series -

CPU Technical specs

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

Base Frequency

2.5 GHz 2.5 GHz
Core architecture

normal normal
Core Configuration

16x Zen 4 -
CPU Cores

16 6
CPU Threads

32 12
Hyperthreading / SMT

Yes Yes
Max. Boost Clock

5.4 GHz -
Overclocking

Yes No
Turbo Frequency (1 Core)

5.4 GHz 4.4 GHz
A-Core

- 6x Golden Cove
Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)

- 4 GHz

IGPU

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 -
Execution units

2 -
Generation

9 -
GPU Frequency

2200 MHz -
GPU name

AMD Radeon 610M None
GPU Turbo

2200 MHz -
Graphics Cores

2 -
Max. displays

3 -
Max. GPU Memory

8 GB -
Release date

Q3/2022 -
Shader

128 -
Technology

6 nm -

Hardware codec support

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

AV1

Decode No
H.264 / AVC

Decode / Encode No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)

Decode / Encode No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)

Decode / Encode No
JPEG

Decode / Encode No
VC-1

Decode No
VP8

Decode / Encode No
VP9

Decode / Encode No

Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-12400F and AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

ECC

Yes No
Max. Memory

128 GB 128 GB
Memory Bandwidth

83.2 GB/s -
Memory channels

2 2
Memory type

DDR5 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800
PCIe

PCIe 5.0 5.0 x 20

Encryption

AES-NI

Yes Yes

Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and Intel Core i5-12400F Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Configurable TDP

55-75 W -
Default TDP

55 W -
Maximum Operating Temperature

100 °C 100 °C
TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)

55 W -
TDP (PL2)

- 117 W
TDP up

75 W -
TDP (PL1, legacy label)

- 65 W

Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and Intel Core i5-12400F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

Architecture

Dragon Range (Zen 4) Alder Lake S
Chip design

Chiplet -
Codename

Dragon Range -
Documents

Technical data sheet -
Instruction set (ISA)

x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions

SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
L2-Cache

16 MB 7.5 MB
L3-Cache

64 MB 18 MB
Operating systems

Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux -
Part Number

100-000000870 -
Release date

2023-02-28 Q1/2022
Socket

FL1 LGA 1700
Technology

TSMC 5nm FinFET 10 nm
Virtualization

AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 2

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settings	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	Intel Core i5-12400F	Result difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows	472.296616 samples/min Submissions: 7	167.116092 samples/min Submissions: 13	-64.6 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows	500.99351 samples/min Submissions: 5	169.74955 samples/min Submissions: 19	-66.1 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Linux 537.819855 samples/min

Intel Core i5-12400F

Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Linux 197.430931 samples/min
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows 157.851555 samples/min
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Linux 199.716739 samples/min
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 158.67054 samples/min
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 197.967794 samples/min
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 148.953521 samples/min
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 198.128399 samples/min
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 145.751849 samples/min

More results: 5

Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Linux 188.63931 samples/min
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 146.386328 samples/min
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 154.23191 samples/min
Blender 5.0.0 / CPU / Windows 132.355368 samples/min
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Windows 163.569856 samples/min

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

Cinebench 2024 / multiple threads

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	1828 points	System: Minisforum BD790i CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W Graphics: Radeon 610M RAM: 64 GB Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench 2024 / single thread

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	114 points	System: Minisforum BD790i CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W Graphics: Radeon 610M RAM: 64 GB Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 32 threads / windows

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	20974.034146 H/s	RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 32 threads / windows System RAM: 32 GB OS: Windows NT 10.0 Duration: 47.678 s User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 9 threads / linux

Model	Result	Reported conditions
Intel Core i5-12400F	6178.369528 H/s	RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 9 threads / linux System RAM: 16 GB OS: Linux x86_64 Motherboard: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. / PRO H610M-S DDR4 (MS-7E44) Duration: 161.855 s User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

Cinebench R23 / multiple threads

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	33459 points	System: Minisforum BD790i CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W Graphics: Radeon 610M RAM: 64 GB Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R23 / single thread

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	1942 points	System: Minisforum BD790i CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W Graphics: Radeon 610M RAM: 64 GB Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R20 / multiple threads

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	13057 points	System: Minisforum BD790i CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W Graphics: Radeon 610M RAM: 64 GB Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R20 / single thread

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	760 points	System: Minisforum BD790i CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W Graphics: Radeon 610M RAM: 64 GB Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R15 / multiple threads

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	5289 points	System: Minisforum BD790i CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W Graphics: Radeon 610M RAM: 64 GB Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R15 / single thread

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX	311 points	System: Minisforum BD790i CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W Graphics: Radeon 610M RAM: 64 GB Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Based on the results of several benchmarks, you can more accurately estimate the difference in performance between AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and Intel Core i5-12400F.

Compare the synthetic test values and choose the best processor!

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted.

Recent models: test results with identified primary sources — Cinebench R23 · Cinebench R20 · Cinebench R15 · Cinebench 2026 · RandomX benchmark

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Maxon's Cinebench R23 SC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

1955.000000

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

1623.000000

Intel Core i5-12400F

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Maxon's Cinebench R23 MC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

32788.000000