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

Core i7-12700F vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX 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 8945HX 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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.

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