Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core i7-12650H

Core i5-12500 vs Core i7-12650H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12650H beats the Core i5-12500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12650H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12500. Indeed, the Core i7-12650H has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. The Core i7-12650H 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.