Intel Core i9-9820X vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Core i9-9820X vs Core i5-12500T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500T is faster than the Core i9-9820X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9820X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9820X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9820X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Core i9-9820X 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 i9-9820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.