Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i9-13900HX

Core i5-12400F vs Core i9-13900HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900HX beats the Core i5-12400F in overall performance. 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 i9-13900HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Core i9-13900HX has 24 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 i9-13900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.