Intel Core i7-12800H vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i7-12800H vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12800H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-12800H 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 i7-12800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.