Intel Core i5-10400 vs Intel Core i5-9600K

Core i5-10400 vs Core i5-9600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10400 beats the Core i5-9600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-10400 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400. Also, the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-10400 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.