Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core i7-11390H

Core i5-12500 vs Core i7-11390H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the Core i7-11390H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11390H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11390H. Indeed, the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-11390H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11390H. The Core i7-11390H outputs less heat than Core i5-12500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.