Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Core i5-12400 vs Core i9-11950H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Core i9-11950H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11950H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-11950H has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12400. Indeed, the Core i9-11950H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. Also, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H 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.

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.