Intel Core i9-12900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

13331 points

50% significantly better overall score

8878 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14234 points

30% slightly better gaming score

10890 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13035 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

8202 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12983 points

62% significantly better heavy workload score

8008 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

7356 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

244.42 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27005 points

56% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

17214 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15365 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

11003 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2616 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2353 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.80 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

241 W

54 W

346% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

87% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

39th of 1,089

116th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900K vs Ryzen 7 7840HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900K is faster than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7840HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900K. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7840HS outputs less heat than Core i9-12900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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