Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i3-10300 vs Core i5-12500H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500H performs better than the Core i3-10300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i3-10300 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10300. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i3-10300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500H has more L2 cache than the Core i3-10300. The Core i5-12500H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.