Intel Core i7-12650H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7176 points
8215 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9511 points
10758 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6485 points
7390 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6334 points
7189 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

154.80 points
195.47 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15537 points
4% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
14873 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.30 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.1 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
28 W
60% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
8 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 1,089
139th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-12650H vs Ryzen 7 7840U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7840U performs better than the Core i7-12650H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12650H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12650H has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7840U that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7840U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 7840U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-12650H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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