Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-12900F

Price

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$ 153.99

$ 374.32 significantly less expensive

$ 528.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7038 points

10606 points

50% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9694 points

12487 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points

10032 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6013 points

9936 points

65% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5938 points

10914 points

83% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.62 points

293.98 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8875 points

13858 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

2526 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.1 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

1280 KiB

166% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

30 MiB

66% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

190th of 1,089

76th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i5-12400 vs Core i9-12900F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900F is faster than the Core i5-12400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900F has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F 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.