AMD Ryzen 5 240 vs Intel Core i9 12900H
We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 240 with 6 cores 4.3GHz and Intel Core i9 12900H with 14 cores 2.5GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.
Main Differences
AMD Ryzen 5 240 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Better graphics card performance
Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 5200)
Larger memory bandwidth (120GB/s vs 76.8GB/s)
Higher base frequency (4.3GHz vs 2.5GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)
Intel Core i9 12900H 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (24MB vs 16MB)
Lower TDP (45W vs 54W)
Score
Benchmark
Cinebench R23 Single Core
AMD Ryzen 5 240
1711
Intel Core i9 12900H
+11%
1906
Cinebench R23 Multi Core
AMD Ryzen 5 240
12220
Intel Core i9 12900H
+35%
16503
Geekbench 6 Single Core
AMD Ryzen 5 240
+2%
2459
Intel Core i9 12900H
2397
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
AMD Ryzen 5 240
10511
Intel Core i9 12900H
+13%
11973
General Parameters
Jan 2025
Release Date
Jan 2022
Amd
Manufacturer
Intel
Laptop
Type
Laptop
x86-64
Instruction Set
x86-64
Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Core Architecture
Alder Lake
-
Processor Number
i9-12900H
FP8
Socket
BGA-1744
Radeon 760M
Integrated Graphics
Iris Xe Graphics (96EU)
Package
25 billions
Transistor Count
-
4 nm
Manufacturing Process
10 nm
35-54 W
Power Consumption
35-45 W
-
Max Turbo Power Consumption
115 W
100 °C
Peak Operating Temperature
100°C
178 mm²
Die Size
-
CPU Performance
6
Performance Cores
6
12
Performance Core Threads
12
4.3 GHz
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.5 GHz
5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
5 GHz
-
Efficiency Cores
8
-
Efficiency Core Threads
8
-
Efficiency Core Base Frequency
1.8 GHz
-
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency
3.8 GHz
6
Total Core Count
14
12
Total Thread Count
20
100 MHz
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
43
Multiplier
25x
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
24 MB shared
No
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Memory Parameters
LPDDR5X-7500,DDR5-5600
Memory Types
DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267
256 GB
Max Memory Size
64 GB
2
Max Memory Channels
2
120 GB/s
Max Memory Bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
No
ECC Memory Support
No
Graphics Card Parameters
true
Integrated Graphics
true
800 MHz
GPU Base Frequency
300 MHz
2600 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
1450 MHz
512
Shader Units
768
32
Texture Units
48
16
Raster Operation Units
24
8
Execution Units
96
15
Power Consumption
15 W
2.7 TFLOPS
Graphics Performance
1.69 TFLOPS
AI Accelerator
AMD Ryzen™ AI
NPU
-
16 TOPS
Theoretical performance
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