Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i7-10700 vs Core i5-12500H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12500H performs better than the Core i7-10700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-10700 has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i7-10700 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 i5-12500H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. The Core i5-12500H also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.