Intel Core i7 13700H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7 13700H with 14-cores against the 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7840U with 8-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
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7840U and 13700H
Advantages of Intel Core i7 13700H
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • Has 8192 KB larger L3 cache size
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.15 vs 2.3 TFLOPS
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 5 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench R23

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
17680
Cinebench R23 Scores (84th and 147th 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)
12569
File compression 1150 MB/sec 1140 MB/sec
Clang compilation 95.3 Klines/sec 98.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 309.5 pages/sec 226 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 378.7 Mpixels/sec 324.6 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 236.6 pages/sec 244.9 pages/sec
Background blur 51.8 images/sec 34.9 images/sec
Photo processing 110.5 images/sec 87.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 21.9 Mpixels/sec 21.4 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
27368
Integer math 96.3 GOps/sec 92.3 GOps/sec
Floating point math 69 GOps/sec 52.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 107M Primes/sec 81M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 34.6M Strings/sec 33.1M Strings/sec
Data encryption 18.8 GBytes/sec 17.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 320.6 MBytes/sec 292.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 1779 Frames/sec 1258 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.1B Matrices/sec 20.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i7 13700H and AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 3, 2023 May 3, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Raptor Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number i7-13700H -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) Radeon 780M
Laptop processors ranking (43rd and 40th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 12 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.4 GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.8 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.7 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 14 8
Total Threads 20 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 24x 33x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (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) 15-30 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP8
Peak temperature 100°C 100°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1500 MHz 2700 MHz
Shading Units 768 768
TMUs 48 48
ROPs 24 32
Execution Units 96 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
2.3 TFLOPS
4.15 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory types - DDR5-5200
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-6400
- LPDDR5x-6400
- LPDDR4x-4267
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Memory Size 96 GB 256 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official site Intel Core i7 13700H official page AMD Ryzen 7 7840U official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or Intel Core i7 13700H?
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Potato. August 19, 2023 at 05:12 PM
Damn. Even if they end up throttling the AMD with microcode, the IGPU is so much faster it will still be better as an APU.
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