Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Core i5 AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 12000 AMD Ryzen 6000H
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Generation
  12 5
• Predecessor
  Intel Core i5-11400F AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 12 8 / 16
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A-Core
  6x Golden Cove --
• Frequency
  2.50 GHz 3.30 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.40 GHz 4.90 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No

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

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon RX 680M
• GPU frequency
  2.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  768
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• Direct X
  -- 12
• Technology
  6 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2022

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No Decode
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and Intel Core i5-12400F. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800 DDR5-4800LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  5.0 x 20 4.0 x 12
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-12400F and AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 45 W
• TDP (PL2)
  117 W --
• TDP up
  -- 54 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 105 °C

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+ SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  7.50 MB 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  18.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Alder Lake S Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
• Technology
  10 nm 6 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  LGA 1700 FP7
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q1/2022