Intel Core i7-12800HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

Core i7-12800HX vs Ryzen 7 8700G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8700G beats the Core i7-12800HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8700G that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800HX. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8700G has more L2 cache than the Core i7-12800HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8700G.

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