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

Core i5-12600 vs Core i7-12800HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Core i7-12800HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more cores with 16 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 i7-12800HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-12800HX outputs less heat than Core i5-12600 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.