Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

Core i5-12500H vs Core Ultra 7 155H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 155H beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. 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 Ultra 7 155H has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-12500H that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12500H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 155H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. The Core Ultra 7 155H also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.