AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Ryzen 7 5700U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Also, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12800H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 7 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.