AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i7-12700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 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

8447 points

1% slightly better overall score

8351 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10377 points

10838 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7810 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

7548 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7629 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

7300 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points

0.47% slightly higher Blender score

224.34 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11485 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9560 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2444 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2256 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

185% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

35 W

54% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

960 KiB

87% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

129th of 1,092

133rd of 1,092

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i7-12700T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is faster than the Core i7-12700T. Despite this, the Core i7-12700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700T has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700T. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700T outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 7940HS thanks to a 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 i7-12700T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core i7-12700T 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 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.