Intel Core i7-12800H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i7-12800H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-12800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.