AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Ryzen 9 4900H vs Core i7-12800H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Ryzen 9 4900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 4900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 4900H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 4900H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.