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

Ryzen 7 5700X vs Core i7-12800H benchmarks

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

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5700X thanks to a 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 Ryzen 7 5700X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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