Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i5-12400

Core i7-11700 vs Core i5-12400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700 performs better than the Core i5-12400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. Both the Core i7-11700 and Core i5-12400 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.