Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i5-12500

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12500

Price

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$ 150.25

$ 121.97 significantly less expensive

$ 272.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points

7166 points

50% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

9976 points

47% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

6301 points

51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

6099 points

52% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4845 points

6075 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

170.78 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5865 points

9112 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1478 points

2182 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points

9032 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

2320 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

18 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th of 1,089

182nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-8700 vs Core i5-12500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500 beats the Core i7-8700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. 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.

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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.