Intel Core i5-12400F vs AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme

Core i5-12400F vs Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme outputs less heat than Core i5-12400F thanks to a 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.