Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Core i5-12400F

Core i7-3770 vs Core i5-12400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Core i7-3770 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12400F has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-3770 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400F outputs less heat than Core i7-3770 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.