Intel Core i5-12400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Core i5-12400 vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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 Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 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 Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12400 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU because of its 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.