AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Compare AMD 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

8895 points

8926 points

0.35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points

1% slightly better gaming score

10736 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points

8383 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points

8262 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

218.16 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

90% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

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

115th of 1,089

112th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Core i7-12850HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12850HX is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945H 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 i7-12850HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-12850HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Core i7-12850HX 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.