Intel Core i7-11850H vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Core i7-11850H vs Core i5-12600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11850H beats the Core i5-12600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-11850H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11850H. Despite this, the Core i7-11850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-11850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.