Intel Core i5-4590 vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i5-4590 vs Core i5-12500H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500H is faster than the Core i5-4590. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4590 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4590. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-4590. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4590. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4590 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i5-4590 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. For instance, the Core i5-4590 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.