Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i5-11400 vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11400. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H 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 i7-12800H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly more 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 i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.