Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Core i5-12400F vs Core Ultra 5 225H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 225H 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 225H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12400F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.