Intel Core i9-10850K vs Intel Core i5-12400

Core i9-10850K vs Core i5-12400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10850K performs better than the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10850K has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-12400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10850K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. Also, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400 outputs less heat than Core i9-10850K 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 i9-10850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.