Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points

8447 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9788 points

10377 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6212 points

7810 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6011 points

7629 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5946 points

7779 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points

225.40 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12380 points

18131 points

46% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points

11485 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points

2444 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

4.00 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.2 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

512 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

198th of 1,118

137th of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen 9 7940HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7940HS performs better than the Core i5-12400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7940HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12400F thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.