Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i5-14500T

Core i5-12400 vs Core i5-14500T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14500T performs better than the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14500T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400. Indeed, the Core i5-14500T has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500T. Despite this, the Core i5-14500T 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.