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Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
Check specs, price, and value across parts.
Bottleneck Calculator
Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
Power Calculator
Estimate wattage and PSU headroom.
Will It Run?
Test your hardware against popular games.
Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
Check specs, price, and value across parts.
Bottleneck Calculator
Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
Power Calculator
Estimate wattage and PSU headroom.
Will It Run?
Test your hardware against popular games.
Intel
Detailed architecture, platform, memory, and feature data for this CPU.
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About This Product
The Intel Core i5-12500H is a mobile processor from the Alder Lake-H series, featuring 4 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores for a total of 12 cores and 16 threads. It offers a base clock of 2.5 GHz and a boost clock of up to 4.5 GHz on performance cores. This CPU is suitable for mainstream gaming laptops and productivity tasks, providing competitive multi-threaded performance for its segment.
Verdict
“A solid choice for users seeking balanced performance in a mainstream laptop.”
Performance Benchmarks
Scores are grouped by benchmark family so it is easy to compare raw speed, threaded output, and real-world value without mixing scales.
Render Workloads
Next-Gen Scale
Large Sample Pool
Value & Efficiency
These derived metrics use Cinebench R23 multi-core performance to keep the value calculation consistent across the catalog.
Performance per Watt
311.5 pts/W
Gaming Performance
These results come from real submitted gameplay sessions, so the reference GPU matters as much as the CPU itself.
Reference GPU
Minecraft
Mixed player settings
102 FPS
Smooth
Reference GPU
EA SPORTS FC 26
Mixed player settings
28 FPS
Heavy compromise
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