Ryzen 7 7840U vs i5-12400F

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Aggregate performance score

Core i5-12400F
2022
6 cores / 12 threads, 65 Watt
12.29
Ryzen 7 7840U
2023
8 cores / 16 threads, 28 Watt
15.71
+27.8%

Ryzen 7 7840U outperforms Core i5-12400F by a significant 28% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking631435
Place by popularity2not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation46.19no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Phoenix (Zen 4, Ryzen 7040)
Power efficiency17.8953.10
Architecture codenameAlder Lake-S (2022)Phoenix-U (Zen 4) (2023)
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$180no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores6 (Hexa-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads1216
Base clock speed2.5 GHz3.3 GHz
Boost clock speed4.4 GHz5.1 GHz
L1 cache80K (per core)64K (per core)
L2 cache1.25 MB (per core)1 MB (per core)
L3 cache18 MB (shared)16 MB (shared)
Chip lithographyIntel 7 nm4 nm
Die size163 mm2178 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C100 °C
Number of transistorsno data25,000 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketFCLGA1700FP8
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt28 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2no data
AES-NI++
AVX++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Speed Shift+no data
Turbo Boost Technology2.0no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
TSX+-
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
Precision Boost 2no data+
Deep Learning Boost+-

Security technologies

Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
OS Guard+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++
VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5-4800, DDR4-3200DDR5-5600
Maximum memory size128 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth76.8 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon 780M ( - 2700 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U.

PCIe version5.0 and 4.04.0
PCI Express lanes2020

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

i5-12400F 12.29
Ryzen 7 7840U 15.71
+27.8%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

i5-12400F 19521
Ryzen 7 7840U 24956
+27.8%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

i5-12400F 2219
+6.6%
Ryzen 7 7840U 2081

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

i5-12400F 9101
+4.1%
Ryzen 7 7840U 8742

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

i5-12400F 8389
+25.8%
Ryzen 7 7840U 6669

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

i5-12400F 40690
+5.7%
Ryzen 7 7840U 38490

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

i5-12400F 11892
Ryzen 7 7840U 12482
+5%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

i5-12400F 4.08
Ryzen 7 7840U 3.51
+16.2%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

i5-12400F 20
Ryzen 7 7840U 23
+11%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

i5-12400F 1759
Ryzen 7 7840U 1990
+13.1%

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

i5-12400F 244
Ryzen 7 7840U 264
+8.2%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

i5-12400F 2.95
+5.7%
Ryzen 7 7840U 2.79

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

i5-12400F 9.3
+10.1%
Ryzen 7 7840U 8.5

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

i5-12400F 7816
+36.6%
Ryzen 7 7840U 5723

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

i5-12400F 101
Ryzen 7 7840U 109
+7.4%

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

i5-12400F 253
+6.4%
Ryzen 7 7840U 237

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

i5-12400F 9517
+1.4%
Ryzen 7 7840U 9382

Blender(-)

i5-12400F 269
+3.7%
Ryzen 7 7840U 260

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

i5-12400F 1742
+0.2%
Ryzen 7 7840U 1738

7-Zip Single

i5-12400F 5476
Ryzen 7 7840U 5952
+8.7%

7-Zip

i5-12400F 45043
Ryzen 7 7840U 55145
+22.4%

WebXPRT 3

i5-12400F 272
+3.8%
Ryzen 7 7840U 262

CrossMark Overall

i5-12400F 1762
+14.9%
Ryzen 7 7840U 1534

WebXPRT 4 Overall

i5-12400F 235
+13%
Ryzen 7 7840U 208

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

i5-12400F 430
+2.1%
Ryzen 7 7840U 421

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 12.29 15.71
Physical cores 6 8
Threads 12 16
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 28 Watt

Ryzen 7 7840U has a 27.8% higher aggregate performance score, 33.3% more physical cores and 33.3% more threads, and 132.1% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 7 7840U is our recommended choice as it beats the Core i5-12400F in performance tests.

Note that Core i5-12400F is a desktop processor while Ryzen 7 7840U is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Core i5-12400F and Ryzen 7 7840U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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