Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Core i5-11400 vs Core i5-12500T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500T is faster than the Core i5-11400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500T. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Core i5-11400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. The Core i5-12500T also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.