Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points
89% significantly better overall score
3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points
75% significantly better gaming score
5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points
94% significantly better multitasking score
3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points
94% significantly better heavy workload score
3089 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
110% significantly higher Blender score
75.98 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12380 points
28% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
9628 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.7 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
Identical
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
800 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

188th of 1,089
459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Core i5-12400F vs Core i7-1255U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F is faster than the Core i7-1255U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Core i7-1255U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400F. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U 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.

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