Intel Core i9-9880H vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Core i9-9880H vs Core i5-12500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9880H beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores with 8 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 i9-9880H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. Also, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Core i9-9880H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9880H. The Core i5-12500T also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.