Intel Core i7-12700KF 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

11376 points

12102 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13117 points

12% slightly better gaming score

11676 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10800 points

12246 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10658 points

12288 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10063 points

11567 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

304.09 points

342.81 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13015 points

13685 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2418 points

2663 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13490 points

13839 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2520 points

2627 points

4% 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

62nd of 1,089

49th of 1,089

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

Core i7-12700KF vs Ryzen 9 7845HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700KF is faster than the Ryzen 9 7845HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7845HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 9 7845HX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7845HX.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.