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

Core i7-11700K vs Core i5-12500H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700K performs better than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-11700K has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-11700K. 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.