Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i5-12400

Core i5-11600K vs Core i5-12400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400 is faster than the Core i5-11600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600K 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 i5-11600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400 outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K 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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.