Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Core i5-10500 vs Core i5-1240P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10500 performs better than the Core i5-1240P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1240P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-10500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1240P. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Core i5-10500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1240P has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.