AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Core i5-12400F

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Core i5-12400F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X performs better 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 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12400F outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 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 Threadripper 1950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.