Intel Core i7-12800HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Core i7-12800HX vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H performs better than the Core i7-12800HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-12800HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.