Intel Core i7-12700H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Core i7-12700H vs Ryzen 5 7530U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700H is faster than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7530U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7530U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7530U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7530U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.