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

Core i7-11700K vs Core i5-12400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700K performs better than the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700K 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K 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. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.