Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Core i5-12400F vs Core i9-11950H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F is faster than the Core i9-11950H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11950H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11950H 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H 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.