Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Core i5-2500K

Core i7-12700 vs Core i5-2500K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700 is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-2500K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. According to our data, the Core i7-12700 and Core i5-2500K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2500K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.