Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Core i5-12400F vs Core i9-12900HK comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F is faster than the Core i9-12900HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-12400F and Core i9-12900HK are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK 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.

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.