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

Core i9-11900H vs Core i5-12500H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900H performs better than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900H. Indeed, the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900H. But they both have the same number of threads. Both the Core i9-11900H and Core i5-12500H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-11900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.