Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 7 7840H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7840H 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 7840H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7840H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F.

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.