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

Core i7-12700K vs Ryzen 7 7840HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700K is faster than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7840HS in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. Indeed, the Core i7-12700K has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7840HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700K. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7840HS outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K 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 i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.