Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i9-10900X

Core i5-12400 vs Core i9-10900X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900X beats the Core i5-12400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900X has significantly more cores with 10 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 i9-10900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. Also, the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900X CPU because of its significantly 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.