Intel Core i7-12800HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Core i7-12800HX vs Ryzen 9 8945HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800HX beats the Ryzen 9 8945HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HS 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 9 8945HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HS outputs less heat than Core i7-12800HX thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12800HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS.

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.