Intel Core i5-12500T vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Core i5-12500T vs Core i5-1245U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1245U beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12500T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12500T has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-1245U. The Core i5-12500T also has significantly 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 i5-12500T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.