intel core i5 12500h vs apple m1

Intel Core i5 12500H
VS
Apple M1
Intel Core i5 12500H
Apple M1

We compared two CPUs Intel Core i5 12500H (Laptop) 12-cores against Apple M1 (Desktop) 8-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between Intel Core i5 12500H and Apple M1
Advantages of Intel Core i5 12500H
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • 29% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 3.2 GHz)
Advantages of Apple M1
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
core i5 12500h +10%
1699
m1
1528
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
core i5 12500h +36%
12242
m1
7810
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
core i5 12500h
3579
m1 +5%
3769
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
core i5 12500h +31%
21632
m1
14821
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
core i5 12500h
1632
m1 +7%
1748
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
core i5 12500h +19%
10260
m1
8274

Specifications

Full technical specification of core i5 12500h and m1

General

Intel Core i5 12500H Apple M1
Vendor Intel Apple
Released January 4 2022 November 10 2020
Type Laptop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake-H
Socket FCBGA1744
Integrated GPU Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible Apple M1 8-Core GPU

Performance

Intel Core i5 12500H Apple M1
Cores 12 8
Threads 16 8
Base Frequency 2.5 GHz 2.064 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.5 GHz 3.2 GHz
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 2 MB
L2 Cache 1.25 MB (per core) 16 MB
L3 Cache 18 MB (shared)

Power

Intel Core i5 12500H Apple M1
Fabrication process Intel 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 W W
Max. temperature 100°C °C

Memory support

Intel Core i5 12500H Apple M1
Memory types DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267
Memory Size 64 GB GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Intel Core i5 12500H Apple M1
Integrated Graphics Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible Apple M1 8-Core GPU
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 450 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1.3 MHz MHz
Shading Units 640 1024
TMUs 40 64
ROPs 20 32
Execution Units 80
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
core i5 12500h
1.41 TFLOPS
m1
2.6 TFLOPS

Misc

Intel Core i5 12500H Apple M1
Official site Intel Core i5 12500H official page Apple M1 official page
PCI Express Version 4
PCI Express Lanes 28

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Apple M1 or Intel Core i5 12500H?