Intel Core i5-12500T Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Core i5-12500T has 6 cores with 12 threads and is based on the 12. gen of the Intel Core i5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1700 socket and was released in Q1/2022. The Intel Core i5-12500T scores 1,674 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 6,625 points.
| Name: | Intel Core i5-12500T |
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| Family: | Intel Core i5 |
| CPU group: | Intel Core i 12000 |
| Architecture: | Alder Lake S |
| Segment: | Desktop / Server |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Predecessor: | Intel Core i5-11500T |
| Successor: | Intel Core i5-13500T |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Intel Core i5-12500T has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-12500T is 2.00 GHz (4.40 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 6 / 12 |
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| Core architecture: | normal |
| Cores: | 6x Golden Cove |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | Yes |
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| Overclocking: | No |
| Frequency: | 2.00 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (1 Core): | 4.40 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (6 Cores): | 3.20 GHz |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Core i5-12500T has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-12500T uses the Intel UHD Graphics 770, which has 256 texture shaders and 32 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | Intel UHD Graphics 770 |
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| GPU frequency: | 0.30 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 1.45 GHz |
| Compute units: | 32 |
| Shader: | 256 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 64 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
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| Generation: | 11 |
| Direct X: | 12 |
| Technology: | 10 nm |
| Release date: | Q4/2021 |
Hardware codec support
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | Decode / Encode |
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| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode / Encode |
| VP9: | Decode / Encode |
| AV1: | Decode |
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| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 128 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | Memory bandwidth: |
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| DDR5-4800 DDR4-3200 | 76.8 GB/s 51.2 GB/s |
| Max. Memory: | 128 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| ECC: | Yes |
| PCIe: | 5.0 x 20 |
| PCIe Bandwidth: | 78.8 GB/s |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 35 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 35 W |
| TDP (PL2): | 74 W |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | 100 °C |
Technical details
The Intel Core i5-12500T is made in 10 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 25.50 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 10 nm |
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| Chip design: | Monolithic |
| Socket: | LGA 1700 |
| L2-Cache: | 7.50 MB |
| L3-Cache: | 18.00 MB |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
| Operating systems: | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux |
| Virtualization: | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
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| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+ |
| Release date: | Q1/2022 |
| Release price: | 202 $ |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | Technical data sheet |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-12500T have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)
The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
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Intel Core i5-12400
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12400F
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500H
12C 16T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500T
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7640HS
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
12C 24T @ 5.60 GHz |
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Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)
The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
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6C 12T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-9700
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500T
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10400F
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Intel Core i3-12300T
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13450HX
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13420H
8C 12T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500T
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500H
12C 16T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-11900T
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1340P
12C 16T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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AMD EPYC 7551P
32C 64T @ 2.55 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11500H
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Sony Playstation 5
8C 16T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500T
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11400H
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen Embedded V2516
6C 12T @ 2.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12400T
6C 12T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.|
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AMD Ryzen 5 7640U
6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7640U
6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13450HX
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500T
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13420H
8C 12T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-1350
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1360P
12C 16T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.|
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Intel Core i5-11600K
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11600KF
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500T
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E-2356G
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12450H
8C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Xeon Gold 5218
16C 32T @ 2.70 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.|
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Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4850HQ
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.20 GHz |
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Apple A14 Bionic
Apple A14 @ 1.46 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500T
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.45 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12650HX
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.45 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12800HX
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.45 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11500B
Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (32 EU) @ 1.45 GHz |
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Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.|
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Intel Core i7-7820X
8C 16T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2
12C 24T @ 3.10 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12500T
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11400F
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11400
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1335U
10C 12T @ 1.30 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
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Cinebench 2024 (MC)
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Geekbench 5 (SC)
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Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,372 entries
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Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,648 entries
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Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,599 entries
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FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,925 entries
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3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
478 entries
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PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries
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