Intel Core i7-12700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 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

11529 points

12102 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13318 points

14% slightly better gaming score

11676 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10938 points

12246 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10798 points

12288 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10051 points

11567 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

304.26 points

342.81 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

22565 points

26876 points

19% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13491 points

13685 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2487 points

2663 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13854 points

0.11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

13839 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2554 points

2627 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.2 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

190 W

55 W

245% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

764 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

64 MiB

156% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

59th of 1,118

54th of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700K vs Ryzen 9 7845HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7845HX performs better than the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 7845HX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7845HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7845HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7845HX 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.