AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-12400

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-12400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Core i5-12400. Despite this, the Core i5-12400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12400. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X 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 Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.