Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

Core i5-12600 vs Core Ultra 7 155H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 155H beats the Core i5-12600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12600. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155H has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12600. 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 Ultra 7 155H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds.

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.