AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Core i7-12850HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12850HX beats the Ryzen 7 7700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700. Indeed, the Core i7-12850HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12850HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12850HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 7700 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-12850HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12850HX.

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 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.