Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Core i5-12500H vs Core i9-12900HK specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HK beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HK has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500H. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-12500H and Core i9-12900HK are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. The Core i9-12900HK 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.