Intel Core i7-12650H vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Core i7-12650H vs Ryzen 9 8945HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HS beats the Core i7-12650H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12650H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12650H has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945HS has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12650H. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-12650H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.