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Intel Core i5-12500H
Alder Lake's value workhorse: four P-cores plus eight E-cores give the i5-12500H twelve cores for the price of a mid-range chip, and it holds a clear multi-threaded lead over the P-series parts it is often cross-shopped against.
Pros
- 12 cores and 16 threads in budget gaming laptops
- 45W design sustains far better than 28W P-series chips
- 18MB of L3 cache for a mid-range part
- DDR5 and DDR4 support keeps laptop prices down
Cons
- 80-EU Iris Xe iGPU is a step below the i7 parts
- Efficiency is poor next to Ryzen 6000 and later
- Only 64GB maximum memory
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core i5-12500H
General
- Announced
- 2022
- Process
- 10 nm
- Base TDP
- 45 W
- Max TDP
- 95 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 12
- Performance cores
- 4
- Efficiency cores
- 8
- Threads
- 16
- Base clock
- 2.5 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4.5 GHz
- L3 cache
- 18 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Iris Xe (80 EU)
- iGPU clock
- 1,300 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR5-4800 / LPDDR5-5200 / DDR4-3200
- Max memory
- 64 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,250Bottom 32%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 10,500Bottom 42%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,655Bottom 46%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 13,500Top 45%
- PassMark
- 20,236Top 49%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 1,175Bottom 44%
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core i5-12500H good in 2026?
The Intel Core i5-12500H earns an Inno Score of 48.4/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. Alder Lake's value workhorse: four P-cores plus eight E-cores give the i5-12500H twelve cores for the price of a mid-range chip, and it holds a clear multi-threaded lead over the P-series parts it is often cross-shopped against.
Does the Intel Core i5-12500H count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 20,236 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier B of our CPU tier checker: recent mainstream Core i7 / Ryzen 7, plus older H-series chips. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core i5-12500H?
Cores: 12 · Threads: 16 · Boost clock: 4.5 GHz · Base TDP: 45 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core i5-12500H?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS, AMD Ryzen 5 7530U, Intel Core i7-1255U — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
