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

Core i5-10500H vs Core i5-1240P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500H beats the Core i5-1240P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1240P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-10500H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1240P. Also, the Core i5-10500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Core i5-10500H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-10500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.