Intel Core i9-12900H vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8158 points

16% slightly better overall score

7028 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10256 points

22% slightly better gaming score

8379 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7544 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

6623 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7441 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

6517 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.04 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

164.73 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19648 points

51% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

12929 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.30 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

142nd of 1,089

191st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7 PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-12900H vs Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U beats the Core i9-12900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H.

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 i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.