Intel Core i7-12800HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6916 points

8878 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8678 points

10890 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6372 points

8202 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6299 points

8008 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9505 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7356 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

257.78 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

244.42 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

22456 points

30% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

17214 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.80 GHz

90% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.1 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

54 W

1% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

198th of 1,089

117th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-12800HX vs Ryzen 7 7840HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800HX beats the Ryzen 7 7840HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-12800HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 7840HS.

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