AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS vs Intel Core i7-12700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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

8633 points
3% slightly better overall score
8351 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10477 points
10838 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8013 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
7548 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7835 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
7300 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

244.42 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
224.34 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11003 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9560 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2353 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2256 points

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

3.80 GHz
171% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
35 W
54% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L2 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

129th of 1,124
142nd of 1,124

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 7840HS vs Core i7-12700T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840HS is faster than the Core i7-12700T. Despite this, the Core i7-12700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. Indeed, the Core i7-12700T has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7840HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700T. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700T outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 7840HS thanks to a significantly 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 i7-12700T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. The Core i7-12700T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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