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Pentium G840 vs Core i5-12400

Pentium G840 vs Core i5-12400: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Core i5-12400 outperforms Pentium G840 on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Core i5-12400 is 3880 days newer than Pentium G840.

Advantages of Core i5-12400

  • Performs up to 51% better in Rust than Pentium G840 - 231 vs 153 FPS
  • Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Pentium G840 - 12 vs 2 threads
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Rust

Rust

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

High

Intel Pentium G840 Logo
Pentium G840

Desktop • May 22nd, 2011


FPS

153

66%

Value, €/FPS

Price, €

Intel Core i5-12400 Logo
Core i5-12400

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022


FPS

231

100%

Value, €/FPS

€0.73/FPS

100%

Price, €

€168.57

100%

FPS and Value Winner

CPU CORE I5-12400 S1700 Box/2.5G BX8071512400 S RL4V IN

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In Stock

Updated 286 minutes ago

My Games

With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

High

Intel Pentium G840 Logo
Pentium G840

Desktop • May 22nd, 2011

Intel Core i5-12400 Logo
Core i5-12400

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022

Geekbench 5 Benchmarks

Intel Pentium G840 Logo
Pentium G840

Desktop • May 22nd, 2011


Single-Core

439

20%

Multi-Core

745

8%

Intel Core i5-12400 Logo
Core i5-12400

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022


Single-Core

2179

100%

Multi-Core

8847

100%

Intel Pentium G840 Logo

Pentium G840

vs
Intel Core i5-12400 Logo

Core i5-12400

May 22nd, 2011
Jan 4th, 2022
PentiumCore i5
Sandy BridgeAlder Lake
Intel Socket 1155Intel Socket 1700
Desktop
Desktop
2
6
2
12
2.8 GHz
2.5 GHz
Non-Turbo4.4 GHz
65 W65 W
32 nm
10 nm
28.0x
25.0x
Intel HD (Sandy Bridge)UHD Graphics 730
NoNo

Builds Using Pentium G840 or Core i5-12400

With selected game settings

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