Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 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
10176 points
43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points
10959 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points
9972 points
60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points
10002 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
307.50 points
92% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points
13460 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
2505 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
20
233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
28
133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

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
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
33 MiB
83% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

188th of 1,089
82nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Core i5-12400F vs Core i7-14700HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700HX 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX 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.

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