Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 258V

Core i5-12500H vs Core Ultra 7 258V specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500H beats the Core Ultra 7 258V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 258V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Core Ultra 7 258V. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core Ultra 7 258V. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 258V. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 258V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 258V has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 258V has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 258V.

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.