Intel Core i7-7820X vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i7-7820X vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7820X beats the Core i7-12800H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-7820X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7820X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7820X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Core i7-7820X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.