Intel Core i9-12900T vs Intel Core i5-6402P

Core i9-12900T vs Core i5-6402P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900T is faster than the Core i5-6402P. Despite this, the Core i5-6402P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6402P. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6402P. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6402P. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6402P has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6402P CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12900T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6402P. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-12900T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.