Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i7-11700 vs Core i5-12500H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700 is faster than the Core i5-12500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11700. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700. But they both have the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i7-11700 and Core i5-12500H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i7-11700 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 i5-12500H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700. 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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.