Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i9-7940X vs Core i5-12500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500H beats the Core i9-7940X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12500H. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i5-12500H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 i9-7940X thanks to a 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 i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.