Intel Core i5-7400T vs Intel Core i7-12700

Core i5-7400T vs Core i7-12700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Core i5-7400T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7400T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-7400T has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7400T. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7400T. Also, the Core i7-12700 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7400T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700 CPU because of its 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 i5-7400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.