Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Core i5-12500 vs Core Ultra 5 125H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 125H performs better than the Core i5-12500. Despite this, the Core i5-12500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-12500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500.

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.