Intel Core i7-12700H vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Core i7-12700H vs Ryzen 7 5700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700 beats the Core i7-12700H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5700 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.