Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Core i5-12500 vs Core Ultra 7 165H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the Core Ultra 7 165H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 165H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 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.