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

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i7-12700H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700H performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800U 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 5800U. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700H 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.