Intel Core i5-11600KF vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i5-11600KF vs Core i5-12500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500H beats the Core i5-11600KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11600KF. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600KF. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i5-11600KF 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 i5-12500H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600KF. The Core i5-12500H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.