Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i5-12400 vs Core i7-12800H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Core i7-12800H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H 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.

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.