Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core 7 240H

Core i5-12500H vs Core 7 240H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 240H is faster than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12500H has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core 7 240H that has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-12500H and Core 7 240H are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 240H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. The Core 7 240H also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.