Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core i7-1165G7

Core i5-12500 vs Core i7-1165G7 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Core i7-1165G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1165G7 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-1165G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1165G7. The Core i7-1165G7 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.