Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i5-12500H vs Core i5-13420H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13420H beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-13420H. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-13420H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 i5-12500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.