Intel Core i5-13420H vs Intel Core i5-14400

Core i5-13420H vs Core i5-14400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400 is faster than the Core i5-13420H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13420H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14400 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-13420H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Also, the Core i5-14400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14400 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13420H. The Core i5-14400 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-13420H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.