AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Core i7-12850HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12850HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12850HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 7700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12850HX.

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