Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Core i5-12600

Core i5-6600 vs Core i5-12600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Core i5-6600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600. According to our data, the Core i5-6600 and Core i5-12600 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.