AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core i7-12700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 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

5963 points
11540 points
93% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7413 points
13325 points
79% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5498 points
10952 points
99% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5377 points
10812 points
101% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6250 points
10051 points
60% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

161.72 points
304.26 points
88% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13214 points
22565 points
70% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6868 points
13491 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1714 points
2487 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7168 points
13854 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1749 points
2554 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
322% significantly lower TDP
190 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

251st of 1,089
57th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core i7-12700K comparison

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700K has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800H. Also, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700K CPU because of its 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 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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