Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core i5-12600T

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5130 points

5246 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points

8031 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

4444 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

4298 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points

7345 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points

2043 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

7.5 MiB

400% significantly more L2 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

335th of 1,089

319th 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

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-8700K vs Core i5-12600T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600T beats the Core i7-8700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12600T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Core i5-12600T also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.