Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Core i7-12650H

Core i5-12600 vs Core i7-12650H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Core i7-12650H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12650H 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650H. Also, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12650H outputs less heat than Core i5-12600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.