Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core i7-1260U

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6875 points
123% significantly better overall score
3070 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9088 points
74% significantly better gaming score
5214 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6235 points
155% significantly better multitasking score
2436 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6100 points
166% significantly better heavy workload score
2288 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.52 points
63% significantly higher Blender score
91.50 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14686 points
97% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
7444 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
127% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
4.7 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
9 W
400% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

28
100% significantly more pcie lanes
14

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB
20% slightly more L1 cache
800 KiB

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

202nd of 1,092
530th of 1,092

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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