Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Core i5-12400F vs Core i9-14900HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900HX 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX 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.