Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Core 7 240H

Core i5-12600 vs Core 7 240H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Core 7 240H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 240H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 240H has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-12600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.