Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Core i5-12400F vs Core i5-12500H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400F performs better than the Core i5-12500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Both the Core i5-12400F and Core i5-12500H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-12500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Core i5-12400F thanks to a 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 i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.