Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i7-12650H

Core i7-11700 vs Core i7-12650H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12650H beats the Core i7-11700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12650H has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11700 has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650H. Also, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12650H 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-11700.

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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.