AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Core i7-12700H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700H beats the Ryzen 7 5800 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 7 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.