Intel Core i7-12700T vs Intel Core i5-14500

Core i7-12700T vs Core i5-14500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14500 beats the Core i7-12700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14500 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-12700T has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12700T has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14500. The Core i7-12700T also has slightly more L3 cache.

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