AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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

61 %

81 %

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

76 %

98 %

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

57 %

76 %

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

56 %

75 %

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9563

12560

31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

191.52

222.77

16% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14363

19250

34% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

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

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

1120 KiB

118% significantly more L1 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

123rd of 1,240

47th of 1,240

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

February 2022

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i7-12700H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700H 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 i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H 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.

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