Intel Core i7-12650H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Core i7-12650H vs Core Ultra 7 165H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12650H beats the Core Ultra 7 165H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 165H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-12650H that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12650H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12650H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 165H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12650H. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-12650H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.