Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Core i5-12400F vs Core Ultra 7 255H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 255H beats the Core i5-12400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400F. 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 Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H 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.