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Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i5-12500

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i5-12500: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Core i5-12500 outperforms Ryzen 9 5980HX on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Core i5-12500 is 357 days newer than Ryzen 9 5980HX.

Advantages of Ryzen 9 5980HX

  • Consumes up to 31% less energy than Intel Core i5-12500 - 45 vs 65 Watts
  • Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Core i5-12500 - 16 vs 12 threads

Advantages of Core i5-12500

  • Performs up to 10% better in Dirt 5 than Ryzen 9 5980HX - 226 vs 206 FPS
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Dirt 5

Dirt 5

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra High

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Logo
Ryzen 9 5980HX

Mobile • Jan 12th, 2021


FPS

206

91%

Value, €/FPS

Price, €

Intel Core i5-12500 Logo
Core i5-12500

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022


FPS

226

100%

Value, €/FPS

€0.75/FPS

100%

Price, €

€169.96

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Intel Core i5 (12th Gen) i5-12500 3 GHz Processor - Retail Pack

Buy for 169.96 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 374 minutes ago

My Games

With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra High

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Logo
Ryzen 9 5980HX

Mobile • Jan 12th, 2021

Intel Core i5-12500 Logo
Core i5-12500

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022

Geekbench 5 Benchmarks

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Logo
Ryzen 9 5980HX

Mobile • Jan 12th, 2021


Single-Core

1919

83%

Multi-Core

7707

85%

Intel Core i5-12500 Logo
Core i5-12500

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022


Single-Core

2311

100%

Multi-Core

9079

100%

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Logo

Ryzen 9 5980HX

vs
Intel Core i5-12500 Logo

Core i5-12500

Jan 12th, 2021
Jan 4th, 2022
Ryzen 9Core i5
Not AvailableAlder Lake
AMD Socket FP6Intel Socket 1700
Mobile
Desktop
8
6
16
12
3.3 GHz
3.0 GHz
4.8 GHz
4.6 GHz
45 W
65 W
7 nm
10 nm
33.0x
30.0x
Radeon Vega 8UHD Graphics 770
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No

Laptops Using Ryzen 9 5980HX or Core i5-12500

With selected game settings

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