Intel Core i7-1265U vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

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

3475 points

5821 points

67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4820 points

7228 points

49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3078 points

5452 points

77% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2987 points

5384 points

80% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.57 points

166.92 points

95% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6222 points

9022 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1915 points

2060 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

3.30 GHz

83% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.1 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

28 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

486th of 1,089

266th 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

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-1265U vs Ryzen 7 8840HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8840HS performs better than the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1265U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8840HS has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more threads than the Core i7-1265U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1265U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more L2 cache than the Core i7-1265U. The Ryzen 7 8840HS also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-1265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.