AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs Intel Core i7-12650HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 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

8215 points

8472 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points

10803 points

0.42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7390 points

7800 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7189 points

7717 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.47 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

174.18 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

65% significantly higher clock speed

2 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

28 W

96% significantly lower TDP

55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

11.5 MiB

43% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 1,089

126th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 May

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 7840U vs Core i7-12650HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12650HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 7840U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7840U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12650HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7840U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7840U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12650HX CPU because of its 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 i7-12650HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840U. The Core i7-12650HX 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 7840U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.