Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Core i9-14900

Core i5-12400 vs Core i9-14900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900 beats the Core i5-12400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900 has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i5-12400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.