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

Core i5-12600K vs Core i7-12800HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12800HX performs better than the Core i5-12600K. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12600K. Indeed, the Core i7-12800HX has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-12600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800HX. Also, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800HX 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.

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