Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core i5-14600KF

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14600KF

Price

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$ 272.22

$ 199.99

$ 72.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

11287 points

57% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

13345 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

10649 points

69% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

10530 points

72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6075 points

10627 points

74% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

309.52 points

81% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

15636 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

2781 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.3 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

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

63rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 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 i5-14600KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14600KF beats the Core i5-12500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14600KF has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12500. Indeed, the Core i5-14600KF has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500.

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