AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 16 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

8583 points

8926 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11637 points

8% slightly better gaming score

10736 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7604 points

8383 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7365 points

8262 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.44 points

218.16 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15510 points

17510 points

12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.70 GHz

123% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

55 W

90% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1280 KiB

233% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

14 MiB

133% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

121st of 1,089

112th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 7600X vs Core i7-12850HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12850HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12850HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 7600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-12850HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12850HX.

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 Ryzen 5 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.