Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Core i5-11600 vs Core i5-12500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600 beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. Also, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Core i5-11600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600. The Core i5-12500T 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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.