Intel Core i7-12800HX vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Core i7-12800HX vs Core i5-13400F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12800HX performs better than the Core i5-13400F. Despite this, the Core i5-13400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13400F has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400F. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12800HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13400F. The Core i7-12800HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-12800HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.