Intel Core i7 12700H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 12700H with 14-cores against the 4.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 8645HS and 12700H
Advantages of Intel Core i7 12700H
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers
  • Newer - released 1 year and 11 months later
  • More powerful Radeon 760M integrated graphics: 2.7 vs 2.2 TFLOPS
  • 6% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.7 GHz)
  • 13% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2668 vs 2353 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#142nd place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 907 MB/sec 1150 MB/sec
Clang compilation 83.6 Klines/sec 84.9 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 270.3 pages/sec 211.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 350.7 Mpixels/sec 282.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 236.4 pages/sec 282.9 pages/sec
Background blur 44.8 images/sec 58.6 images/sec
Photo processing 95.7 images/sec 83.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 18 Mpixels/sec 18.4 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 901 & 84 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
24970
Integer math 87.9 GOps/sec 70.5 GOps/sec
Floating point math 63.4 GOps/sec 43.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 91M Primes/sec 73M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 32.7M Strings/sec 31.1M Strings/sec
Data encryption 17.1 GBytes/sec 15.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 292.8 MBytes/sec 257.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 1476 Frames/sec 1075 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 17.4B Matrices/sec 19.5B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 12064 & 850 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
197.87

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 23.4 PPW 13.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 248.1 PPW 207.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 554.9 PPW 406.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.4 PPW 2.74 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i7 12700H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-05 (Mark)Geekbench 7 CPU1884 / 8871
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-05 (Mark)Cinebench 2026460 / 1351
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-30 -> YowthCinebench 2024105 / 541
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-27 (Fapvie)Cinebench 2024102 / 961
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-27 (sizar)Cinebench 2024100 / 750
AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-04 (supergo0se)Geekbench 6 CPU2540 / 10607
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-04 (ZubairIbnZamir)Cinebench 202489 / 680
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-03 (ZubairIbnZamir)Geekbench 6 CPU2477 / 10355
πŸ“˜ 2025-01-13 (sauron269)Cinebench 2024104 / 676
πŸ“˜ 2024-12-28 (darseen)Cinebench 2024103 / 727

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i7 12700H and AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 4, 2022 December 6, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Model number i7-12700H -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) Radeon 760M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 7 265H -
Intel CPU rating (#125th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#76th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 6
P-Threads 12 12
Base Frequency (P) 2.3 GHz 4.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.7 GHz 5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.7 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.5 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 14 6
Total Threads 20 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 23x 43x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-45 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (162nd and 121st place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) Radeon 760M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1400 MHz 2600 MHz
Shading Units 768 512
TMUs 48 32
ROPs 24 16
Execution Units 96 8
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
2.2 TFLOPS
2.7 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-5200
- LPDDR4x-4267
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i7 12700H official page AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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