Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i9-7900X vs Core i5-12500H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7900X is faster than the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-7900X has 10 cores. Despite this, the Core i9-7900X has more threads than the Core i5-12500H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i9-7900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.