Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i5-12600 vs Core i7-12800H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12600 performs better than the Core i7-12800H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12600. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-12800H 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.

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