Intel Core i5-8400H vs Intel CoreT i5-1340P

Core i5-8400H vs CoreT i5-1340P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8400H beats the CoreT i5-1340P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the CoreT i5-1340P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the CoreT i5-1340P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-8400H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8400H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8400H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the CoreT i5-1340P. The info from our database shows that the CoreT i5-1340P has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400H. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-8400H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.