Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 Ryzen 7 5800X3D has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has 8 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 Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12400F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.