Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Core i7-12700

Core i5-12600 vs Core i7-12700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Core i5-12600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. According to our data, the Core i5-12600 and Core i7-12700 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.