Intel Core i7-12800H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

Core i7-12800H vs Ryzen 7 8840U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8840U is faster than the Core i7-12800H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8840U. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8840U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840U outputs less heat than Core i7-12800H thanks to a 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 Ryzen 7 8840U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8840U.

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.