AMD Ryzen 7 7840H vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Ryzen 7 7840H vs Core i7-12850HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12850HX performs better than the Ryzen 7 7840H. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840H 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 7840H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7840H. The Core i7-12850HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7840H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.