Intel Core i5-12600K vs Intel Core i7-11800H

Core i5-12600K vs Core i7-11800H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600K beats the Core i7-11800H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11800H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11800H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11800H. Also, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11800H outputs less heat than Core i5-12600K 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 i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.