Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i5-12400 vs Core i5-13500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Core i5-13500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-12400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. Also, the Core i5-13500H 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.