AMD Ryzen 5 8540U vs Intel Core i7 12850HX

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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

Intel Core i7 12850HX

We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 8540U with 6 cores 3.2GHz and Intel Core i7 12850HX with 16 cores 2.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 4800)

Larger memory bandwidth (89.6GB/s vs 76.8GB/s)

Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.1GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (30W vs 55W)

Intel Core i7 12850HX 's Advantages

Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 4.0)

Larger L3 cache size (25MB vs 16MB)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U +4%

1789

Intel Core i7 12850HX

1704

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

10405

Intel Core i7 12850HX +56%

16286

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U +10%

2445

Intel Core i7 12850HX

2217

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

9182

Intel Core i7 12850HX +32%

12173

Blender

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

124

Intel Core i7 12850HX +98%

246

Passmark CPU Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U +1%

3759

Intel Core i7 12850HX

3686

Passmark CPU Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

18276

Intel Core i7 12850HX +63%

29839

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

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Intel Core i7 12850HX

General Parameters

Dec 2023

Release Date

May 2022

Amd

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

x86-64

Instruction Set

x86-64

Zen 4 (Hawk Point)

Core Architecture

Alder Lake-HX

-

Processor Number

i7-12850HX

FP7

Socket

BGA-1744

Radeon 740M

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics (32EU)

Ryzen 5 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))

Generation

-

Package

20.9 billions

Transistor Count

-

4 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

15-30 W

Power Consumption

45-55 W

100 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

TSMC

Foundry

-

137 mm²

Die Size

-

CPU Performance

2

Performance Cores

8

4

Performance Core Threads

-

3.2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.1 GHz

4.9 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.8 GHz

4

Efficiency Cores

8

Efficiency Core Threads

-

3 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

3.7 GHz

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

-

6

Total Core Count

16

12

Total Thread Count

24

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

32x

Multiplier

21x

64 K per core

L1 Cache

80 K per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

1280 K per core

16 MB shared

L3 Cache

25 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5600, LPDDR5x-7500

Memory Types

DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200

256 GB

Max Memory Size

128 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

89.6 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

800 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

300 MHz

2800 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1450 MHz

256

Shader Units

256

16

Texture Units

16

8

Raster Operation Units

8

4

Execution Units

32

15 W

Power Consumption

45 W

1.43 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0.74 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

Official Website

Intel Core i7 12850HX

4.0

PCIe Version

5.0

14

PCIe Lanes

20

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