Intel Core i5-12600H vs Intel Core Ultra 5 236V

Core i5-12600H vs Core Ultra 5 236V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 236V beats the Core i5-12600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Indeed, the Core i5-12600H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core Ultra 5 236V. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 236V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 236V has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 236V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 236V.

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