Intel Core i5-1240P vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i5-1240P vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Core i5-1240P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1240P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-1240P has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1240P. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1240P. Also, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-1240P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12800H CPU because of its 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 i5-1240P has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1240P.

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 i5-1240P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.