Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i7-9800X

Core i5-12400F vs Core i7-9800X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F is faster than the Core i7-9800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i5-12400F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.