Intel Core i9-12900HK vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS

Core i9-12900HK vs Ryzen 7 6800HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900HK is faster than the Ryzen 7 6800HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 6800HS in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 6800HS. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 6800HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 6800HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800HS outputs less heat than Core i9-12900HK thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 6800HS. The Core i9-12900HK 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 i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.