Intel Core i5-10400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i5-10400 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition is faster than the Core i5-10400. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 Microsoft Surface Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.