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MediaTek Dimensity 1000 vs Intel Core i5-12500

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 44 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1000

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-12500

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 33 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1000

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-12500

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

796

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,804

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

2,976

6C / 12T · 4.00 GHz

8,973

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

ARM Mali-G77 MP9

979

Intel UHD Graphics 770

742

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1000	Intel Core i5-12500
Family	Mediatek Dimensity (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	MediaTek Dimensity 1000 (4)	Intel Core i 12000 (34)
Architecture	Cortex-A77 / Cortex-A55	Alder Lake S
Technology	7 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1700
Predecessor		Intel Core i5-11500
Successor		Intel Core i5-13500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1000	Intel Core i5-12500
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Cortex-A77 2.60 GHz	6x Golden Cove 3.00 - 4.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache		7.50 MB
L3-Cache		18.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1000	Intel Core i5-12500
GPU name	ARM Mali-G77 MP9	Intel UHD Graphics 770
GPU frequency	0.85 GHz	0.30 - 1.45 GHz
CUs / Shader	9 / 144	32 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	64 GB
Technology	7 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q2/2019	Q4/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1000	Intel Core i5-12500
AI hardware	Mediatek APU 3.0
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1000	Intel Core i5-12500
Memory	LPDDR4X-1866 (29.8 GB/s)	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1000	Intel Core i5-12500
TDP		65 W
TDP (PL2)		117 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1000	Intel Core i5-12500
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
Release date	Q1/2020	Q1/2022
Release price		202 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of MediaTek Dimensity 1000 is 4.2 stars (5 ratings), while Intel Core i5-12500 has received 4.1 stars (57 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek Dimensity 1000
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-12500
6C / 12T · 3.00 - 4.60 GHz

★★★★★