Intel Core i7-12700KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Core i7-12700KF vs Ryzen 9 9955HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX is faster than the Core i7-12700KF. 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 9955HX has slightly more cores than the Core i7-12700KF. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700KF. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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.

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 i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.