Core i7-8700 vs Core i5-12600H benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600H 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.
With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-8700 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600H. Also, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600H outputs less heat than Core i7-8700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12600H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Core i5-12600H also has significantly more L3 cache.
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.
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