Intel Core i7-11700F vs Intel Core i5-12400

Core i7-11700F vs Core i5-12400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700F is faster than the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-11700F has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-11700F and Core i5-12400 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-11700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-11700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.