Intel Core i5-10400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

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Price

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$ 171.08
$ 130.48 significantly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4791 points
11183 points
133% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6709 points
13819 points
105% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4183 points
10307 points
146% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4048 points
10060 points
148% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4753 points
9722 points
104% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.95 points
302.05 points
165% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5556 points
16965 points
205% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1451 points
3349 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.8 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
5.5 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

385th of 1,125
73rd of 1,125

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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