Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i5-12400F

Core i9-10900 vs Core i5-12400F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900 performs better than the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.