Intel Core i7-12700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 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

0.77% slightly better overall score

11441 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13318 points

33% slightly better gaming score

9957 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10938 points

12030 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10798 points

12352 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

304.26 points

468.88 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.4 GHz

8% 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

1024 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

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

61st of 1,126

66th of 1,126

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2025 April

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 8945HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700K is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700K has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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.