Intel Core i5-10505 vs Intel Core i5-12500

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12500

Price

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$ 155.99

$ 116.23 significantly less expensive

$ 272.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5099 points

7166 points

40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7173 points

9976 points

39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4433 points

6301 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4285 points

6099 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.57 points

170.78 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5432 points

9032 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1554 points

2320 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

338th of 1,089

182nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-10505 vs Core i5-12500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the Core i5-10505 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10505 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-10505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.