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Intel Core Ultra 5 235H vs i5 12500H

65 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 5 235H
VS
49 out of 100
Intel Core i5 12500H
Intel Core Ultra 5 235H
Intel Core i5 12500H

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.4 GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 235H with 14-cores against the 2.5 GHz i5 12500H with 12-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games 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
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 12500H and 235H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 235H
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 10 nanometers
  • Newer - released 3 years and 1 month later
  • More powerful Arc Graphics 140T integrated graphics: 4.6 vs 1.7 TFLOPS
  • Supports up to 128 GB LPDDR5-8400 RAM
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • 24% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2706 vs 2180 points
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
  • 11% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 5 235H
vs
Core i5 12500H

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#160th place)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 1020 MB/sec 867.4 MB/sec
Clang compilation 117.3 Klines/sec 62.8 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 289.6 pages/sec 235.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 334.9 Mpixels/sec 291 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 283.4 pages/sec 231.7 pages/sec
Background blur 66.1 images/sec 37.7 images/sec
Photo processing 115.1 images/sec 96.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 24.2 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 1034 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 74.3 GOps/sec 70.7 GOps/sec
Floating point math 93.6 GOps/sec 51.4 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 240M Primes/sec 56M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 36.3M Strings/sec 27.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 23.2 GBytes/sec 14.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 302.9 MBytes/sec 248.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 1985 Frames/sec 1002 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 23.4B Matrices/sec 14.6B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 192 & 5384 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core Ultra 5 235H +25%
191.49
Core i5 12500H
152.89

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 35 PPW 16.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 486.8 PPW 211.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1076.8 PPW 450 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.84 PPW 3.4 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core Ultra 5 235H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-13 (TheShifty6)Cinebench 2024122 / 979
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Intel Core i5 12500H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-01 (Ryoji)Cinebench 2026516 / 2644
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-01 (Ryoji)Cinebench 202498 / 660
πŸ“˜ 2024-12-17 (Thien)Cinebench 202499 / 821
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-02 (Praheg)Cinebench 202497 / 748
πŸ“˜ 2024-09-21 (uqi)Cinebench 202492 / 527
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 5 235H and i5 12500H

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released January 6, 2025 January 4, 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Arrow Lake Alder Lake
Model number 235H i5-12500H
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics 140T Iris Xe Graphics (80EU)
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 240 -
Successor - - Intel Core Ultra 5 235H
Intel CPU rating (63rd and 162nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 4
P-Threads 4 8
Base Frequency (P) 2.4 GHz 2.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5 GHz 4.5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 8
E-Threads 8 8
Base Frequency (E) 1.8 GHz 1.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4.4 GHz 3.3 GHz
Total
Total Cores 14 12
Total Threads 14 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 24x 25x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1280K (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 18MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
TDP (PL1) 20-28 W (configurable) 35-45 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W 95 W
Socket FCBGA-2049 BGA-1744
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics 140T Intel Iris Xe Graphics (80EU)
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2250 MHz 1300 MHz
Shading Units 1024 640
TMUs 64 40
ROPs 32 20
Execution Units 8 80
TGP 35 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core Ultra 5 235H +171%
4.6 TFLOPS
Core i5 12500H
1.7 TFLOPS
More info: Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) compared to Arc 140T

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-8400
- LPDDR5x-8400
- DDR5-6400		 - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-5200
- LPDDR4x-4267
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 5 235H official page Intel Core i5 12500H official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 28

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