Intel Core i5-10400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Core i5-10400 vs Ryzen 7 7700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700X is faster than the Core i5-10400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10400. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10400 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. The Ryzen 7 7700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.