Product Compare

AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Intel Core i5 12600K

	CPU AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX	CPU Intel Core i5 12600K
General Parameters
Release Date	Apr 2025	Oct 2021
Manufacturer	Amd	Intel
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Zen 4 (Dragon Range)	Alder Lake
Integrated Graphics	Radeon 610M	UHD Graphics 770
Generation	Ryzen 9 (Zen 4 (Dragon Range))
Processor Number		i5-12600K
Package
Transistor Count	13.14 billions
Manufacturing Process	5 nm	10 nm
Socket	FL1	LGA-1700
Power Consumption	55 W	125 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption	75 W	150 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	100°C
Foundry	TSMC
Die Size	2x71 mm²
I/O Process Size	6 nm
I/O Die Size	122 mm²
Package	µFC-BGAFL1
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	16	6
Performance Core Threads	32	12
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.4 GHz	3.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	5.3 GHz	4.9 GHz
Total Core Count	16	10
Total Thread Count	32	16
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	24	37x
L1 Cache	64 K per core	80 K per core
L2 Cache	1 MB per core	9728 K shared
L3 Cache	64 MB shared	20 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	Yes
SMP	1
Efficiency Cores		4
Efficiency Core Threads		4
Efficiency Core Base Frequency		2.8 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency		3.6 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-5200	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Max Memory Channels	2	2
ECC Memory Support	No	Yes
Max Memory Size		128 GB
Max Memory Bandwidth		76.8 GB/s
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Base Frequency	400 MHz	300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	2200 MHz	1450 MHz
Shader Units	128	256
Texture Units	8	16
Raster Operation Units	4	8
Execution Units	2	32
Power Consumption	15	15 W
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5.0	5.0
PCIe Lanes	28	20
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1809	1908
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	29610	17648
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2709	2548
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	15308	12188