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

Core i7-11700K vs Core i5-12400F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700K beats the Core i5-12400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400F 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.

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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.