Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i9-11900F vs Core i5-12500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900F beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-11900F has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i9-11900F and Core i5-12500H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i9-11900F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12500H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900F. The Core i5-12500H also has slightly 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 i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.