Intel Core i5-10400 vs Intel Core i7-1195G7

Core i5-10400 vs Core i7-1195G7 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10400 beats the Core i7-1195G7 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1195G7 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-10400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-1195G7 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1195G7. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-10400 and Core i7-1195G7 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-1195G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1195G7 outputs less heat than Core i5-10400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.