Intel Core i7-12800HX vs AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme

Core i7-12800HX vs Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12800HX performs better than the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme 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 AI Z2 Extreme has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. According to our data, the Core i7-12800HX and Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme outputs less heat than Core i7-12800HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme 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 AI Z2 Extreme.

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.