Intel Core i5-2400 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E7400

Core i5-2400 vs Core 2 Duo E7400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2400 performs better than the Core 2 Duo E7400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E7400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2400 has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Duo E7400. Indeed, the Core i5-2400 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E7400. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E7400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E7400. The Core 2 Duo E7400 outputs less heat than Core i5-2400 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. For instance, the Core i5-2400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.