Intel Core i5-13400F vs Intel Core i9-12950HX

Core i5-13400F vs Core i9-12950HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12950HX is faster than the Core i5-13400F. Despite this, the Core i5-13400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12950HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13400F that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12950HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. The Core i9-12950HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-13400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.