Intel Core i5-10300H vs Intel Core i5-12400

Core i5-10300H vs Core i5-12400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400 performs better than the Core i5-10300H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10300H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12400 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10300H. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-10300H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10300H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10300H. Despite this, the Core i5-10300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10300H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.