Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core i7-3770K

Core i5-12500 vs Core i7-3770K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-3770K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. A Core i5-12500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3770K CPU because of its slightly 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.