Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Intel Core i5-12400F

Core i9-9900KF vs Core i5-12400F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F is faster than the Core i9-9900KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900KF in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-9900KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Also, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400F outputs less heat than Core i9-9900KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.