Core i7-12700KF vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Core i7-12700KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has slightly more cores than the Core i7-12700KF. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700KF. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700KF 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 i7-12700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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.
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