Intel Core i9-12900HK vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Core i9-12900HK vs Ryzen 9 7940HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is faster than the Core i9-12900HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HK in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS.

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.