Intel Core i7-12700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i7-12700F vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Core i7-12700F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Core i7-12700F thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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