Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 2) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

8164 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

10592 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

7427 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

7270 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

188.37 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

96 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

24 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 1,089

141st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12500 vs Core 7 240H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Core 7 240H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 240H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 240H has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-12500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500.

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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.