Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core 5 120U

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6875 points
58% significantly better overall score
4342 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9088 points
26% slightly better gaming score
7190 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6235 points
76% significantly better multitasking score
3534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6100 points
80% significantly better heavy workload score
3381 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.52 points
74% significantly higher Blender score
85.75 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
20% slightly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
78% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

28
40% slightly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
96 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

5 MiB
6.5 MiB
30% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

212th of 1,109
419th of 1,109

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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