It's the annual back-to-school season, presumably many friends are ready to change a new notebook, and for those who love to play games, the game can be said to be the best choice, its strong hardware configuration can not only cope with online games, but also play a lot of AAA game masterpieces.
When purchasing the game product, the most important thing is to look at the hardware parameters, one of the most critical is the CPU, its performance strength for the game experience, daily use and office creation will have a very large impact. Here I have to mention Intel and AMD two giants, in the field of games, basically is not blue is red, so today I will bring you a strong showdown, to see how the two major manufacturers perform.
This time I chose the Mechanical Revolution and the Mechanical Revolution Dragon 7, which use the same mold, respectively, equipped with Intel and AMD processors, both equipped with RTX 3060 graphics, memory is 16GB, but the 12th generation Core processor supports the higher frequency DDR5, so there are some gaps in memory, but the impact on testing will not be great.
In addition to the theoretical performance and game measurement, the test project also adds daily office and content creation, covering everyone's daily use scenarios, so that everyone can have a more comprehensive understanding of the product.
Among them, the mechanical revolution is equipped with Intel's 12th generation Core i7-12700H processor, which adopts a hybrid CPU architecture of performance core/energy efficiency core, has 6 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores, a total of 14 cores and 20 threads, turbo frequency up to 4.7GHz, 24MB L3 cache, TDP of 45W.
Jiaolong 7 is equipped with Ryzen™ 9 5900HX, 8 cores and 16 threads, the highest turbo frequency can reach 4.6GHz, 16MB L3 cache, and the TDP is 45W.
Both products built-in mechanical revolution esports console support SPC settings, can adjust the CPU and graphics card power consumption, I set the CPU power consumption of both products at 80W; The Dynamic Boost of the graphics card part is 15W, plus they all use the 115W version of RTX 3060, that is, the full power consumption of the graphics card can reach 130W, which is basically aligned in parameters, and the strongest performance of the violent mode is used in all tests.
Let's first look at the theoretical performance, here I used CPU-Z, CineBench R20, CineBench R23, V-Ray, x264 and other professional software to test them, let's take a look at the results:
From the test results of multiple software, it can be seen that the Core i7-12700H with a hybrid CPU architecture of performance core/energy efficiency core has achieved a comprehensive crushing compared with the Ryzen™ 9 5900HX, and the single-core performance lead has reached about 20%, and the leading margin of CinBench R23, the largest gap, has reached 23.7%; In terms of multi-core performance, in the Geekbench5 test, the lead reached 70.1%, and other projects also have an advantage of more than 15%.
In addition, in 3D Mark's CPU Profile test, the Core i7-12700H is basically ahead of the Ryzen™ 9 5900HX in single-threaded and multi-threaded performance.
In addition to the CPU, the performance of the graphics card has a great impact on the gaming experience, let's take a look at the performance test results of the graphics card:
Although it is a graphics card with the same power consumption, there is still a small gap in performance under the blessing of different CPUs, and the Core i7-12700H has a certain lead over the Ryzen 9 5900HX, of which fire Strike Extreme is the largest, reaching 5.8%.
After testing the theoretical performance, let's go to the game testing session to see if the theoretical lead can be converted into an advantage of the actual experience. I selected a number of games including Borderlands 3, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Red Dead Redemption 2, Tomb Raider: Shadow, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Cyberpunk 2077, CS:GO, and tested them in 2K/1080P resolution with the same game quality.
It can be seen that although the two products are equipped with the same power consumption graphics card, there are still some gaps in the frame rate in the game, and the Core i7-12700H is better than the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all the games tested, and the most ahead is in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, reaching 24%, and the difference of nearly 20% in the two different resolutions of CS:GO.
In addition, at present, many small partners often record screens while playing games, record their wonderful operations, or record materials for explanation, and make game strategies or skill videos. In response to this requirement, I conducted relevant tests and the results are as follows:
When recording screens while playing, the Core i7-12700H's lead in Tomb Raider: Shadow, Cyberpunk 2077, and CS:GO has further expanded, such as Cyberpunk 2077 from 7% directly to 18.5%, in the face of this extremely high load game, the Ryzen™ 9 5900HX after opening the screen recording, the frame rate drop is very significant, and the Core i7-12700H is much less affected.
The Core i7-12700H is able to achieve this lead in large part thanks to the 12th generation Core's hardware thread scheduler, which intelligently sorts, manages, and distributes the workloads of the P-Core and Energy Efficiency Core (E-Core) based on real-world application scenarios. When recording screens while playing, the performance core mainly deals with high-load games, while the screen recording is handled by the energy efficiency core, which can better guarantee the game frame rate.
Of course, games can also be used as productivity tools in addition to games, so let's also conduct some productivity-related tests to see if their single-threaded and multi-threaded leads can translate into productivity gains. The first is web performance, here we use WebXprt 4 for testing, here to see the results:
In terms of comprehensive results, the Core i7-12700H led the Ryzen™ 9 5900HX by 18.8%, and the use of artificial intelligence to organize photo albums and online homework led the two singles with the largest margin, reaching more than 19%.
Next is the daily office, first of all, the PC Mark10 modern office test, first look at the results:
The Core i7-12700H is 10.9% higher than the Ryzen™ 9 5900HX overall score, with digital content creation leading the way, reaching 15%+.
PCMark10 application testing, the results are as follows:
The Core i7-12700H has a very clear lead in Word, Excel, Edge and other projects, around 10%.
CrossMark test, which covers the three dimensions of creativity, productivity and responsiveness, has very high requirements for the single-threaded performance of the processor, which can well reflect the processing efficiency of daily transactions of the computer, and the following look at the results:
The performance of the Core i7-12700H is very eye-catching, and the Ryzen™ 9 5900HX has opened a relatively large gap, with a comprehensive performance lead of 46.4%, and the lead in the reaction ability project has reached 62%.
At present, many users will use Premiere Pro to edit videos or Photoshop to process pictures in their work, so I tested these two professional software, and the results are as follows:
The Core i7-12700H still maintains a relatively large advantage, with the two projects leading by 25.1% and 30.4% respectively.
In addition to bringing a great gaming experience, the Core i7-12700H can also meet the needs of users for productivity and creation, and improve work efficiency.
Test summary
From the test results of various projects, the Core i7-12700H with a new performance core / energy efficiency core hybrid CPU architecture, not only to achieve a comprehensive leadership in CPU theoretical performance, in the game experience, daily office, professional software and other tests compared with competitors also have a larger lead, in the face of different application scenarios can output more powerful performance.