Intel Core i5-12500 vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Core i5-12500 vs PRO A8-8670E comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the PRO A8-8670E in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8670E 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 PRO A8-8670E that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the PRO A8-8670E.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.