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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700K 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 i7-12700K 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-2500K outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.