Intel Core i5-12400 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i5-12400 vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. A Core i5-12400 CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.