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

Core i7-10700 vs Core i5-12500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12500T that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. Also, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T 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 info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. The Core i5-12500T also has slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.