AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs Intel Core i7-12650HX

Compare AMD 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

8895 points
4% slightly better overall score
8472 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points
0.40% slightly better gaming score
10803 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
7800 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
7717 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
174.18 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
11.5 MiB
43% significantly more L2 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

115th of 1,089
126th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Core i7-12650HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8945H is faster than the Core i7-12650HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12650HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12650HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650HX. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12650HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Core i7-12650HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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