Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

8158 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

10256 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

7544 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

7441 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6075 points

7534 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

209.04 points

22% slightly higher Blender 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 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

1120 KiB

133% significantly more L1 cache

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

142nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12500 vs Core i9-12900H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900H 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. The Core i9-12900H 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.

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.