Intel Core i7-12700H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Core i7-12700H vs Ryzen 7 8840HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700H beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS 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 7 8840HS. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8840HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840HS outputs less heat than Core i7-12700H thanks to a significantly 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 i7-12700H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.