Intel Core i5-12600K vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Core i5-12600K vs Core i7-5820K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600K beats the Core i7-5820K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5820K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600K has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-5820K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5820K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5820K. Also, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5820K outputs less heat than Core i5-12600K thanks to a slightly 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.