Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Core i5-12600 vs Core i9-12900H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900H is faster than the Core i5-12600. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-12600 that 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 i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H 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.

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.