Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i5-12600HX

Core i7-11700K vs Core i5-12600HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700K beats the Core i5-12600HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600HX has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11700K. Indeed, the Core i5-12600HX has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600HX. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600HX 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. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12600HX has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. The Core i5-12600HX 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.