Intel Core i7-12700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10387 points
10538 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12127 points
26% slightly better gaming score
9595 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9819 points
10967 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9689 points
11265 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

270.50 points
468.88 points
73% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
32
60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB
1024 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
64 MiB
156% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

81st of 1,114
80th of 1,114

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

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