Intel Core i7-10750H vs Intel Core i5-12500

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 2679.99
$ 272.22
$ 2407.77 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3929 points
7166 points
82% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5560 points
9976 points
79% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3431 points
6301 points
83% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3318 points
6099 points
83% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4257 points
6075 points
42% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

91.61 points
170.78 points
86% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5521 points
9112 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points
2182 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5373 points
9032 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1452 points
2320 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
44% significantly lower TDP
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
18 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

439th of 1,089
182nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-10750H vs Core i5-12500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Core i7-10750H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10750H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i7-10750H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-10750H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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