Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i9-7940X

Core i5-12400F vs Core i9-7940X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Core i9-7940X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 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 i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12400F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7940X CPU because of its 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.