Intel Core i9-12900H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

Core i9-12900H vs Ryzen 7 8840U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8840U performs better than the Core i9-12900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840U outputs less heat than Core i9-12900H 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 i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.