Intel Core i5-10600 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i5-10600 vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Core i5-10600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10600. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Core i5-10600 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 i7-12800H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-10600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.