Intel Core i7-12700H vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Core i7-12700H vs Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U performs better than the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a significantly higher clock speed than 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.