Intel Core i5-12400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Core i5-12400 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U performs better than the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12400. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U 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.