Intel Core i9-12900HK vs AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS

Core i9-12900HK vs Ryzen 7 8745HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8745HS is faster than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8745HS. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8745HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8745HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8745HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HK. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8745HS has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8745HS.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.