Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Core i5-12400 vs Core i7-4790K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400 is faster than the Core i7-4790K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12400 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790K. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i5-12400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4790K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.