Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i5-12600KF

Core i7-8700 vs Core i5-12600KF specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600KF is faster than the Core i7-8700. 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 i5-12600KF has significantly more cores with 10 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 i5-12600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. Also, the Core i5-12600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600KF CPU because of its 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.