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

Core i5-12400 vs Core i9-12900HK specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Core i9-12900HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. Both the Core i5-12400 and Core i9-12900HK have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK 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.