Intel Core i5-10400 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i5-10400 vs Core i5-13420H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10400 beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13420H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10400 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.