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General information Core i5-12400F Core i5-8600K
Launched Q1 2022 Q4 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Alder Lake Coffee Lake
Clock 2.5 GHz 30.6 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 4.3 GHz 2.3 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 6 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 10 nm 28.6 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 48 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 1.25 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 18 MB
1 × 9 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i5-12400F Core i5-8600K
Overall Score 59638 0 % 50674 15 %
Future Proof 86 % 0 % 62 % 27.9 %
Benchmark Score 12650 0 % 6594 47.9 %
Single Thread Score 3525 0 % 2569.7 27.1 %
Encrypting Data 11691.2 MB/s 0 % 3122.5 MB/s 73.3 %
Compressing Data 228 MB/s 0 % 138.6 MB/s 39.2 %
String objects sorting 22649.3 thousand/s 0 % 17623 thousand/s 22.2 %
Prime numbers generation 74 millions/s 0 % 41.6 millions/s 43.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 59981.9 millions/s 0 % 27978 millions/s 53.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 46932 millions/s 0 % 23927 millions/s 49 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-12400F, Core i5-8600K.

Average frames per second Core i5-12400F Core i5-8600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 131.8 FPS 105.2 FPS
High settings 210.9 FPS 168.3 FPS
Medium settings 263.7 FPS 210.4 FPS
Low settings 329.6 FPS 263.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 20.2 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i5-12400F Core i5-8600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 155.6 FPS 139.8 FPS
High settings 248.9 FPS 223.7 FPS
Medium settings 311.2 FPS 279.6 FPS
Low settings 389.0 FPS 349.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.1 %
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