Intel Core i7-12700H vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Core i7-12700H vs Core i5-1240P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700H is faster than the Core i5-1240P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1240P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700H has slightly more cores than the Core i5-1240P. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i5-1240P. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1240P. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1240P. Also, the Core i7-12700H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Core i7-12700H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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