AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 16 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

9048 points
1% slightly better overall score
8926 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points
1% slightly better gaming score
10736 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points
0.36% slightly better multitasking score
8383 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points
8262 points
0.50% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
218.16 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

18131 points
3% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
17510 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
90% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
1% slightly lower TDP
55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1280 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
14 MiB
75% 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

110th of 1,089
112th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i7-12850HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12850HX beats the Ryzen 9 7940HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12850HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12850HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core i7-12850HX 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.

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