Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core 7 240H

Core i5-12400F vs Core 7 240H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Core 7 240H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 240H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 7 240H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Core 7 240H has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Both the Core i5-12400F and Core 7 240H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core 7 240H 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 i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.