Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i5-12500H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500H is faster than the Core i7-6700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700HQ. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.