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

Core i9-10850K vs Core i5-12400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10850K beats the Core i5-12400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10850K has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12400F. Indeed, the Core i9-10850K has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10850K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400F 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.

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 i9-10850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.