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

Core i9-10900K vs Core i5-12400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900K is faster than the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900K has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400F outputs less heat than Core i9-10900K 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 i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.