Intel Core i5-10400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4799 points

4837 points

0.79% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6712 points

6909 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4192 points

4216 points

0.57% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4056 points

4083 points

0.67% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.95 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

103.14 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5556 points

6293 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1451 points

1663 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

367th of 1,089

361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10400 vs Ryzen 5 5560U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5560U performs better than the Core i5-10400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5560U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U.

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.