Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800H

Core i7-12700 vs Ryzen 7 6800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Ryzen 7 6800H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 6800H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 6800H. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 6800H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 6800H. Also, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800H outputs less heat than Core i7-12700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.