Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Core i5-12400F vs Core i9-13950HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-13950HX performs better than the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Core i9-13950HX has 24 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400F. 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 i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX 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.