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

Core i7-11700KF vs Core i5-12500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700KF beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-11700KF that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-11700KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i7-11700KF 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 i7-11700KF. 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 i7-11700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.