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

Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Core i7-12850HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HS beats the Core i7-12850HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12850HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12850HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 8945HS 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS. The Core i7-12850HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.