Intel Core i7-7820X vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Core i7-7820X vs Core i5-12600H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7820X performs better than the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-7820X has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7820X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600H outputs less heat than Core i7-7820X 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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.