Intel Core i5-2400 vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Core i5-2400 vs Core i7-9850HL comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9850HL beats the Core i5-2400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-2400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-2400 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850HL 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.