Intel Core i7-12700T vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i7-12700T vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Core i7-12700T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700T has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700T. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700T. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700T CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12700T has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i7-12700T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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