Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Core i7-5820K vs Core i5-1240P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Core i5-1240P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-5820K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5820K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5820K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Core i7-5820K thanks to a 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 i7-5820K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.