Intel Core i5-12500T vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i5-12500T vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500T beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13420H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. Also, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12500T has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13420H. The Core i5-12500T 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 i5-12500T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.