Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Core i7-12700 vs Core Ultra 5 225H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Core Ultra 5 225H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 225H has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 225H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed.

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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.