Intel Core i7-12700H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7424 points

8878 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9222 points

10890 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6907 points

8202 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6820 points

8008 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7238 points

7356 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.62 points

244.42 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19330 points

12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

17214 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.80 GHz

65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.1 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

20% slightly lower TDP

54 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1120 KiB

118% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

169th of 1,089

116th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-12700H vs Ryzen 7 7840HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7840HS beats the Core i7-12700H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H.

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.