Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Core i5-12500H vs Core i7-14700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700K is faster than the Core i5-12500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700K has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. The Core i7-14700K also has significantly 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.