Intel Core i5-7500 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Core i5-7500 vs Core i9-12900T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7500 beats the Core i9-12900T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-7500 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Core i5-7500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.