Who is stronger, the Intel 12th Generation Core i7-12700H and the AMD Ryzen™ 7 6800H processor? Without further ado, today we're going to solve this problem.
First of all, let's look at the performance evaluation of the two processors by various CPU test software, and the specific results are summarized as follows:
Judging from the test results, in addition to the Intel 12th generation Core i7-12700H processor in the CINEBENCH R15 single-core running score and the Ryzen 7 6800H is almost the same, the other 12 test results, one test performance lead of 49.79%, five test performance lead of more than 20%, five test performance lead of more than 10%.
In a word, the 12th-generation Core i7-12700H has reached the crushing level of the Ryzen™ 7 6800H in terms of single-core, multi-core, video encoding, physical rendering and other performance performance. The power of Intel's heterogeneous hybrid architecture is in full swing.
After the theoretical performance, let's look at the actual game performance. In addition to the different processor configurations, the memory, hard disk, graphics card specifications, and system version of the test models are consistent, and the BIOS and graphics card drivers are upgraded to the latest. The test uses a graphics card for the 140W full-blood RTX 3060.
Game testing
The test game uses Eldon's Ring of Law and God of War as references.
Eldon's Ring of Law
This game is the ancestral lock 60 frame setting, but the main reason why this game is used as a test game project is that it is currently very unstable due to optimization problems, and this is a great condition for testing the performance of the processor.
The processor is as important to the gaming experience as a graphics card. A processor that is stable enough to provide higher frequencies can make the game frame rate run more stable, and at the same time, the minimum frame rate can be pulled up, and if the frame is suddenly dropped during the game, the game with stronger processor performance is relatively smoother.
During the test, we set the game's image quality to the highest quality, using 1920×1080 resolution, and adjusted to full-screen mode. In order to maintain the principle of fairness, we chose the same route for the test: starting from the birth point, running all the way to the gate of Stonewell City to take a horse, then taking the right side of the path to bypass Stonewell City, and finally arriving at the Magic Academy key collection, this journey is about 30 minutes, we will record the average frame number, frame fluctuations, and average processor temperature through third-party software, and finally see how the performance of i7-12700H and R7 6800H is different.
Let's look at the test results:
Through the actual test, we can see that the average game frame number of i7-12700H is 60fps, and from the perspective of the lower frame rate fluctuation line, the overall frame number is still relatively stable, but after all, the current optimization problem of "Eldon's Law Ring" itself has not been solved, so you can see the obvious frame drop.
In addition, during the 28-minute run, the i7-12700H processor temperature averages only 75 °C, with an average occupancy rate of 17%; the average temperature of the graphics card is 74 °C, and the occupancy rate is 48%.
Looking at the performance of R7 6800H, the average frame number is 59fps, and the frame number fluctuation line oscillation in the whole process is very obvious, and the frame drop will be more obvious and frequent in the actual game process. In addition, from the average temperature point of view, the average temperature of the R7 6800H processor is as high as 85 °C, the occupancy rate is 46%; the average temperature of the graphics card is 80 °C, and the occupancy rate is as high as 72%.
From the test results, it is not difficult to see that the i7-12700H platform has great advantages in game frame number and heat dissipation performance. Especially in terms of processor and graphics card occupancy, the 12th-generation Core platform is simply "half the effort", and the overall energy efficiency performance is much higher than that of the Ryzen 7 6800H platform.
God of War
The second test game is the PC version of Sony's PS platform classic "God of War", the game as a whole has relatively high hardware performance requirements, although there are also some optimization problems, but overall it has been tuned well enough. When testing, we set the game's picture quality to the highest quality, with a resolution of 1920×1080, let's take a look at the test results of this game on two platforms.
The performance of the 12th generation Core i7-12700H platform is still a familiar feeling, the average frame rate is 77fps, the frame rate fluctuation during the game is very stable, only at the beginning because of the call out of the setting interface and there is a significant frame number fluctuation, other times the frame number fluctuation amplitude is still relatively small.
During the game, the average processor temperature is 72 °C, the occupancy rate is 60%, and the average temperature of the graphics card is 83 °C, and the occupancy rate is 99%.
The average frame count on the R7 6800H platform is only 65fps, which is 12fps lower than the i7-12700H platform. The frame rate fluctuation is slightly higher than that of the 12th generation Core platform, but the actual difference is not too big (Note: during the test of the 12th generation Core platform, due to the call out of the setting screen, one of the frames reached 286fps, which also caused the Ryzen platform fluctuation line to be more visually uneven, in fact, the difference between the two is not too big, because the game "God of War" mainly relies on GPU resources),
In addition, the average processor temperature during the game is 76 °C, the occupancy rate is 55%, and the average temperature of the graphics card is 83 °C, with an occupancy rate of 98%.
From the test results, it can be seen that the consumption of GPU resources in the game "God of War" is more obvious. However, the 12th generation Core platform is still ahead of the Ryzen 7 6800H platform in terms of frame rate performance. In addition, in terms of occupancy, the average occupancy rate of the Ryzen™ 7 6800H is lower than that of i7-12700H, but the temperature is 4 °C higher, and the heat dissipation pressure is relatively larger.
Video rendering testing
The third test we're working on is AdobePremiere's video rendering. The main test method is to first turn off the CUDA acceleration option, that is, to use the CPU to complete the rendering acceleration. Secondly, we selected 4 4K videos for stitching, and finally exported a complete H.264 4K video. Finally, our test recording time method is calculated according to the system time, not according to the Premiere estimated time, after all, the difference between the Premiere estimated time and the actual time is still relatively large, not too accurate.
Let's take a look at the test results.
The test of the i7-12700H platform starts at 18:15, when the rendering process is 5%, and when the entire rendering process reaches 100%, the time is 18:22, which takes about 7 minutes.
The R7 6800H platform test started at 18:09, at which point the rendering process also started at 5%. The time to 100% is 18:18, and the overall time is about 9 minutes.
Judging from the test results, without using GPU acceleration, intel's 12th generation Core i7-12700H platform completes the same video rendering task, which is about 2 minutes faster than the AMD Ryzen™ 7 6800H platform. Just think, for professional video creators or film and television post-editers, when dealing with larger-scale video projects, the 12th generation Core platform will undoubtedly have an advantage in saving time.
In fact, even if the AMD Ryzen™ platform has surpassed the Core platform in some Benchmark software running scores in the past few years, in practical applications, the Core platform relies on high main frequency and high turbo frequency capabilities, or can suppress the Ryzen platform without falling behind. The new 12th-generation Core platform perfectly solves the thread scheduling problem on the basis of heterogeneous hybrid architecture, and still maintains the characteristics of high frequency and high turbo frequency, while also greatly increasing the number of cores, so it still maintains the leading position on the Ryzen platform in terms of video rendering efficiency.
Conclusion
The reason why Intel's 12th Generation Core can achieve the result of crushing the Ryzen™ 6000 processor in terms of performance is closely related to its heterogeneous hybrid architecture and efficient and perfect thread scheduling ability.
We all know that Intel's 12th generation Core processors have introduced the hybrid architecture design of P-Core + E-Core from i5 to i9. P-Core is the performance core, has a higher frequency, and supports hyper-threading, when the computer is in a high-load task application environment, P-Core will bring users excellent performance support. E-Core is the energy efficiency core, although the frequency is low, and does not support hyper-threading, but compared to the "small core" of the smartphone chip, E-Core itself can also provide very good performance, because it is not simply designed to save power, some lighter load tasks are performed on the E-Core, which can also achieve good efficiency.
From the actual test, it can be seen that thanks to this design, the 12th generation Core is extremely good in the overall energy efficiency performance, and the overall temperature control is more excellent in the case of low processor occupancy; when the processor occupancy rate is higher than other platforms, the temperature can also be controlled to a more ideal state. At the same time, with the high frequency, high turbo frequency features, and rich instruction set, it brings a better performance experience in games, video rendering, physical rendering, etc.
Through the test, I think everyone knows how to choose, right?
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