Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i5-12400F vs EPYC 74F3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the Core i5-12400F. 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 EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has 9 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 EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. A Core i5-12400F CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 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.