AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i7-12700

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i7-12700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Ryzen 9 5900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. According to our data, the Ryzen 9 5900HX and Core i7-12700 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.