Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i5-12400 vs Core i5-13500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500 performs better than the Core i5-12400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. Both the Core i5-12400 and Core i5-13500 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.