Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i5-12400 vs Core i5-12500H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400 is faster than the Core i5-12500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. According to our data, the Core i5-12400 and Core i5-12500H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i5-12400 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 i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.