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General information Core i5-12500 Core i5-9600K
Launched Q1 2022 Q4 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1700 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Alder Lake Coffee Lake Refresh
Clock 3 GHz 18.9 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 0 % 4.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 6 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 10 nm 28.6 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 48 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 1.25 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 18 MB
6 × 1.5 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Integrated GPU Intel UHD Graphics 770 Intel UHD Graphics 630
Performance Core i5-12500 Core i5-9600K
Overall Score 59894 0 % 51266 14.4 %
Future Proof 86 % 0 % 68 % 20.9 %
Benchmark Score 12869 0 % 6907 46.3 %
Single Thread Score 3707.1 0 % 2720.1 26.6 %
Encrypting Data 12063 MB/s 0 % 3232 MB/s 73.2 %
Compressing Data 232.3 MB/s 0 % 146.1 MB/s 37.1 %
String objects sorting 23380.6 thousand/s 0 % 18382.1 thousand/s 21.4 %
Prime numbers generation 75.6 millions/s 0 % 43.6 millions/s 42.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 61463.1 millions/s 0 % 29382.1 millions/s 52.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 48301.3 millions/s 0 % 24829.5 millions/s 48.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-12500, Core i5-9600K.

Average frames per second Core i5-12500 Core i5-9600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 132.6 FPS 107.0 FPS
High settings 212.2 FPS 171.2 FPS
Medium settings 265.2 FPS 214.0 FPS
Low settings 331.5 FPS 267.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 19.3 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i5-12500 Core i5-9600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 156.0 FPS 140.8 FPS
High settings 249.7 FPS 225.3 FPS
Medium settings 312.1 FPS 281.7 FPS
Low settings 390.1 FPS 352.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.7 %
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