Intel Core i5-12450H vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i5-12450H vs Core i7-1260P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260P beats the Core i5-12450H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12450H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Core i5-12450H 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 i7-1260P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12450H. The Core i7-1260P 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 i5-12450H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.