AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs Intel Core i9-12950HX

Ryzen 7 7840U vs Core i9-12950HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12950HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 7840U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12950HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7840U. Indeed, the Core i9-12950HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7840U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12950HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7840U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12950HX 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 i9-12950HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840U. The Core i9-12950HX 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.