Core i7-12700H vs Ryzen 7 8840U specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8840U is faster than the Core i7-12700H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700H in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8840U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840U 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.
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.
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