Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 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

10390 points

14% slightly better overall score

9048 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12574 points

14% slightly better gaming score

10935 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9694 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

8413 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9533 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

8221 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7779 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

225.40 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

21751 points

19% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

18131 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points

11485 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points

2444 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

4.00 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.2 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

87% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,089

110th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 April

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

Yes

Core i7-12700 vs Ryzen 9 7940HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Ryzen 9 7940HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700.

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.