Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Core i5-12400

Core i7-8650U vs Core i5-12400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Core i7-8650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8650U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12400 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8650U. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8650U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8650U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8650U. Also, the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8650U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12400 CPU because of its 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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.