Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i5-4440S

Core i5-12400 vs Core i5-4440S comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Core i5-4440S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4440S in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-4440S that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4440S. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4440S has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.