Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i7-13700F

Core i5-12400F vs Core i7-13700F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700F is faster than the Core i5-12400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700F has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Core i7-13700F has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700F. Despite this, the Core i7-13700F has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.