Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

Core i5-12400F vs Core Ultra 7 155H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Core Ultra 7 155H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 155H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 155H 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.