Intel Core i5-7200U vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Core i5-7200U vs Core i5-12450H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450H beats the Core i5-7200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12450H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-7200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7200U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-7200U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12450H CPU because of its 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 i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.