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

Core i5-12400F vs Core i9-14900K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900K 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 i9-14900K 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 i9-14900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F.

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.