Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i5-12600T

Core i5-11500 vs Core i5-12600T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11500 performs better than the Core i5-12600T. Despite this, the Core i5-12600T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600T. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-12600T outputs less heat than Core i5-11500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.