Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i5-12500 vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13420H performs better than the Core i5-12500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads.

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.